One of the groups caught on suspicion of violating copyright law over the release of an illegal movie called "Fast Movie" that reveals the story by summarizing the contents of the movie in about 10 minutes without permission exceeds 10 million yen It turns out that it has settled with one of the movie companies on the condition that it pays compensation.
"Fast movie" is a 10-minute video that reveals the story with subtitles and narration using the movie image without permission, and has been posted on YouTube one after another since last spring.
In June, the Miyagi Prefectural Police Headquarters caught the group who released a fast movie illegally and earned advertising revenue for the first time in the whole country on suspicion of violating the copyright law, and three people were arrested and prosecuted last month, the same Two members of the group have been sent documents.
Of these, a narrator in his twenties living in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and one of the movie companies, who had been sent documents, proceeded with settlement negotiations between the parties and agreed to pay compensation of over 10 million yen to the people concerned. I understood from the interview.
The narrator told NHK, "I was worried that the members of the group were friends playing online games at first, but there are hundreds of thousands of subscribers and other channels with over 1 million views. I was relieved. I was involved in a total of about 70 books at a pace of about once every two days when there were many. I knew that anything was allowed on the net, but I think I have to reconsider. " I did.
The CODA = Content Overseas Distribution Association, which is made by movie and animation companies, will consider counseling with the police and civil lawsuits in cooperation with movie companies for other malicious video contributors.
Video deletion and account closure after being caught one after another
According to CODA = Content Overseas Distribution Association, more than 2,100 "fast movie" videos have been posted in the past year alone.
CODA estimates that the total amount of damage caused by not watching the main movie by watching a fast movie is 95.6 billion yen.
On the other hand, since the Miyagi Prefectural Police Headquarters caught the group that illegally released the video for the first time in June, there have been a series of movements to delete the video and close the account.
According to CODA, the number of accounts posting fast movies has dropped from 55 to 8.
The CODA side is also identifying the operator of closed accounts and is considering legal action.