Dailymotion
Dailymotion is a French online video sharing platform owned by Vivendi.[2] North American launch partners included Vice Media, Bloomberg, and Hearst Digital Media.[3] It is among the earliest known platforms to support HD (720p) resolution video.[4][5] Dailymotion is available worldwide in 183 languages and 43 localised versions featuring local home pages and local content.
Type of business
149 countries and 183 languages
15 March 2005
France
Worldwide
- Benjamin Bejbaum
- Olivier Poitrey
Maxime Saada
Maxime Saada
Benjamin Bejbaum (co-founder)
450[1]
Contextual and video ads
Optional (required to upload)
15 March 2005; 18 years ago
Active
Copyright cases and blocking of dailymotion[edit]
In June 2007, Dailymotion was found liable for copyright infringement by a Paris High Court. The judges held that Dailymotion is a hosting provider, and not a publisher, but that it must be held liable for copyright infringement, as it was aware of the presence of illegal content on its site. Such illegal content may be copyrighted material uploaded to Dailymotion by its users. The judges held that Dailymotion was aware that illegal videos were put online on its site, and that it must therefore be held liable for the acts of copyright infringement, since it deliberately furnished the users with the means to commit the acts of infringement.[25]
Dailymotion has been banned in Kazakhstan since August 2011.[26]
Dailymotion was banned in India in May 2012,[27] but in the following month India unblocked access to video- and file-sharing sites including Dailymotion. The Madras High Court changed its earlier order, explaining that only specific URLs carrying illegally copied content should be blocked, not entire websites.[28] Dailymotion was again banned in India in December 2014, due to Government concerns that the site might be hosting videos pertaining to ISIS propaganda about Indian rule in Kashmir.[29]
In December 2014, Dailymotion was fined €1.3 million. The Paris Court of Appeal found that the site had infringed the copyright of French television station TF1 and news channel LCI. The court ruled that Dailymotion had failed to take action against users illegally posting TF1 content online.[30]
According to Guillaume Clément, Chief Product & Technology Officer, as of 2017 the company employs a combination of human curation and automated tools to ensure copyright holder rights are protected within the destination, and it is able to remove questionable or illegal content within two hours.[31]
Dailymotion has been permanently blocked in Russia since January 2017, because the Moscow City Court ruled that the site was repeatedly violating Russia's copyright law by providing access to illegal TV content.[32][33]