{"id":96166,"date":"2009-12-23T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091223\/0124067481.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-23T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:28:00","slug":"italian-courts-continue-to-attack-youtube-demand-it-remove-all-content-from-berlusconi-owned-mediaset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/96166","title":{"rendered":"Italian Courts Continue To Attack YouTube; Demand It Remove All Content From Berlusconi-Owned Mediaset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the Italian legal system really has problems with YouTube.  We&#8217;ve already detailed the absolutely ridiculous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091125\/1242447090.shtml\">criminal lawsuit<\/a> against Google execs over a video of some kids taunting another kid (why Google execs are criminally responsible for this still remains unexplained).  Then there&#8217;s the Italian politician who has tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091027\/0027446686.shtml\">sue a bunch of YouTube commenters<\/a>.  And now comes the news (via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CopyrightLaw\/statuses\/6952880903\">Michael Scott<\/a>) that a court has <a href=\"http:\/\/the1709blog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/italian-courts-latest-score-berlusconi.html\" >ordered YouTube to remove all content from Mediaset<\/a>, an Italian broadcaster owned (of course) by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.  It&#8217;s unclear how the court thinks YouTube can somehow figure out what content is from Mediaset, but it doesn&#8217;t appear that Italian law cares about such practicalities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091223\/0124067481.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091223\/0124067481.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091223\/0124067481&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ec75f05465083c588513b71c590e1990&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ec75f05465083c588513b71c590e1990&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=c3MxjVYWo1c:1HYfQVlX6o4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=c3MxjVYWo1c:1HYfQVlX6o4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=c3MxjVYWo1c:1HYfQVlX6o4:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/c3MxjVYWo1c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that the Italian legal system really has problems with YouTube. We&#8217;ve already detailed the absolutely ridiculous criminal lawsuit against Google execs over a video of some kids taunting another kid (why Google execs are criminally responsible for this still remains unexplained). Then there&#8217;s the Italian politician who has tried to sue a bunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}