Brazilian court orders YouTube to remove Pele videos
Posted by Wolfy Becker on March 14th, 2007
(JP-wb) — A Brazilian court today ordered video-sharing website YouTube.com to remove video sequences of the film “Pele Forever” (original title: Pelé Eterno) which includes a large part of the 1,200 goals marked by the three-time world champion and arguably the greatest footballer of all time.
According to Brazilian ‘G1 news’, the complaint was filed by the company Anima Cultural Productions which owns the distribution rights to the film.
The court ruling comes just one day after Viacom filed a $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company Google.
Google company lawyers said on Tuesday they are confident its popular YouTube site and other web services Google offers have strong legal protections under current copyright law.
In the Brazilian case, the lawsuit asks for a more modest compensation: if YouTube does not comply and continues to make these videos available on its website, it would have to pay a little less than 50,000 dollars, according to G1.
Anibal Massaini Neto, the director of the film released in June 2004, welcomed the court’s decision and affirmed that more than a million people have seen the movie “Pelé Eterno”, before YouTube began spreading its short-time videos.
For fans of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pelé, it’s a must see even if they don’t understand Portuguese. It is 125 minutes long and fully dedicated to portray the life of Pele. The first approximately ten-minute sequence describes Pele’s infancy and childhood while the last chapter shows how Pele is living today with his wife and kids. During the main sequence the audience is presented a selection of more than 300 goals throughout his magnificent career.
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