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Several Indian news channels have allegedly deleted thousands of videos over the last few days to avoid penalties after copyright violation strikes – a legal process to remove copyrighted content – on YouTube. Most of these videos contained footage of natural disasters from across the globe.
These strikes were initiated earlier this month after US-based firm Viral DRM, a digital rights management company partly owned by weather photographer Brandon Clement, submitted takedown notices under Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The firm last week also filed a lawsuit in a federal court in California after receiving what it calls an unsatisfactory response from several channels.
Videos deleted, YouTube channels defunct: What happens when Indian TV is accused of copyright violations
A digital rights management firm has filed a lawsuit in California naming several news channels.