TF1 may sue YouTube, Dailymotion
Variety is reporting that France’s largest private TV broadcaster TF1 is set to seek damages totaling e150 million ($217 million) against video file-sharing sites Dailymotion and the localized YouTube for copyright infringement, unfair competition and failing to prevent content piracy.
TF1 is particularly aggrieved to have seen broadcasts of its hit U.S. series “Heroes” and an exclusive performance by popular French comedian Gad Elmaleh so extensively downloaded, according to news magazine Le Point
The network claims that the file-sharers’ actions have cost it up to $97,000 in lost advertising revenues and video-on-demand sales per pirated episode of “Heroes.” One episode had been viewed over 80,000 times.
Dailymotion investors include Atlas Venture LLP, Partech International, AGF Private Equity, Advent Venture Partners.
