The Football League could claim 10 million euros to Twitter !!!

The discontent of sports rights holders up against Vine. This time, the application acquired by Twitter in 2012 to post minividéos, is in the crosshairs of the Professional Football League (LFP). In his sights, the "Football Vine" these extracts games on television that people filming from their mobile phone and share on the Web.

Copyright holder championship broadcast on Canal + France and Al Jazeera Sport, the LFP decided to bang your fist on the table to stop piracy. It has already sent to Twitter three set formal remains of a US law firm that has a special mandate. In vain. The giant never responded. "It is incomprehensible that a listed and supposedly serious as society treats Twitter as lightly the issue of copyright," says Jerome Perlemutter, responsible for legal affairs at the LFP and former lawyer. Not enough to discourage provided the sporting body. "If Twitter refuses to take into account the issue of the rights holders, we will be forced to act before the courts," warns Mr. Perlemutter.

The issue is crucial. For these videos "wild", more and more widespread, pose two problems. First television channels who buy expensive proprietary rights, pirated constantly, even if it is a competition especially affecting their magazines and their digital content. Then those marketing rights and have no interest in seeing their value decrease due to the looting 2.0.

50 pirated videos per day

During the season, about 50 pirated videos circulating on Twitter by game day. Recently, two major sites have just been assigned by the LFP court for posting videos of Ligue 1. Result: The case ended around 5000 euros in compensation video. On this basis, the LFP could therefore claim some 10 million euros to Twitter ...

To stop "Football Vine" Twitter has implemented a system that allows rights holders to notify by e-mail pirated videos. But in reality, the service sometimes puts up to ten days to remove the content. And some extracts are never removed. Especially, videos Vine benefit the business of Twitter when surrounded by advertisements ...

But there are very effective collaborative systems, as used by YouTube or Dailymotion. The LFP has also entered into contracts with these two platforms to allow them to legally broadcast highlights of the championship. The "chain" Ligue 1 on YouTube and has over 300,000 subscribers.

The LFP is not the only one to see red. In Britain, the Premier League is also leapt. This summer, the leaders of the English league on the BBC warned they would act against the fans posting videos of games on platforms, pointing to a "copyright infringement."

The LFP is perfectly determined. "We do not have the habit of communicating on these issues, but it is perhaps the only way to react Twitter." To the wise ..