Vimeo sued; have staffers uploaded infringing content?: Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica.

Who would want to sue Vimeo? The video-sharing site was never meant to be a hub for illicit Simpsons clips and films broken into 10-minute increments; it was supposed to be about original content and community. "From the beginning, Vimeo was created by filmmakers and video creators who wanted to share their creative work, along with intimate personal moments of their everyday life," is how the site describes itself.

Since its founding in 2004, Vimeo has largely avoided the content-related problems (and lawsuits) that have dogged similar services like Veoh and YouTube. But, according to major music label EMI, Vimeo has a double standard: its video content is indeed original, but the audio tracks to those videos are too often unlicensed copies of full songs. EMI has filed a pair of lawsuits in federal court, alleging all manner of copyright violations.

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