Google requests to close lawsuit against you related to your ContentID – Music Industry

Google and YouTube are officially moving to obtain a summary judgment in their court confrontation with the Grammy-winning jazz composer, Mary Schneider.

The case began in 2020, when Schneider claimed, among other things, that YouTube had denied her, and other creators who lack “financial clout,” full access to the Content ID toolso their works were exposed to being used without a license within the platform.

As mentioned at the outset, the defendants are now pushing for summary judgment, according to new documentation, with the official request for the corresponding warrant expected to arrive on October 13.

However, prior to this formal request, YouTube over 30 pages pointed to various components of the demand for Schneiderwhich he says is “meritless for myriad reasons.”

The first of these reasons concerns the alleged “improper deletion of your copyright management information”, which Youtube it contends that, in any event, Schneider’s publisher, Modern Works Music Publishing, was authorized to make under a general license.

“Schneider also accused YouTube of improperly removing information that she claims may have been buried in the metadata of videos uploaded by other users to YouTube,” part of the legal document reads. “But Schneider has refused, despite repeated requests, to identify the alleged information or the videos alleged to contain it.”

“Schneider cannot show that YouTube intentionally removed information, much less that it did so with the knowledge (or reason to know) that such removal would further infringement,” the text reads.

On the infringement front, the defendants asserted that two licenses, the aforementioned general agreement from Schneider’s publisher and “a license in YouTube’s Terms of Service,” authorized him to use the works in question. Additionally, the platform’s terms of service are said to prohibit “many of Schneider’s claims.”

Ultimately, YouTube and Google expressed the belief that “hundreds” of the copyright infringement claims noted by Maria Schneider are time-barred under the platform’s terms of service and the Copyright Act itself.

With regard to the alleged inaccessibility of Content IDthe motion says that “since 2014, Schneider, through its publisher, has had access to and used YouTube’s Content ID to identify uses of its works on YouTube,” in addition to allegedly being “aware of the offering of services of third parties”.