A man who on six websites and a number of special Facebook page’s music and backing tracks offered, is via an ex-parte injunction forced it to stop offering the music. The man has got the websites taken offline and the Facebook pages closed.
According to Brain, it went to thousands of backing tracks on the websites, and Facebook were offered, while the man do not have the permission of the copyright holders would have and do not have the necessary licenses would be available. There would be unauthorized copying and publication, so there was an infringement of the copyright. The judge ordered the man within 24 hours to stop the activities, involving him in a penalty of 2000 euros per day would be imposed for each day that he still went on.
The man would, according to Brain on six websites and four Facebook pages backing tracks to distribute. On Facebook he made advertising for the websites, which lists with the provided backing tracks were. For the promotion of the sale of own produced backing tracks gave the man according to Brain free pirated backing tracks way. The home-produced, and on request made backing tracks of original works of third parties, were from 40 euro offered, something where he, according to Brain no permission for. The included backing tracks of songs by Guus Meeuwis, André Hazes, Marco Borsato and, for example, Alicia Keys and David Bowie.
On the Facebook pages have the members on the request backing tracks exchanged. If one of the members of the pages was in the possession of a person desired band, was the applicant, typically via a personal message a link from WeTransfer will be sent to enable the orchestra to be able to download. Sometimes a WeTransfer-link also publicly shared on the Facebook page. Also, there were entire folders with multiple backing tracks shared. The man to whom Brain is evolving with the ex-partebevel has focused, was the one who made the requests on Facebook answered and the personal messages with the download links sent.
Brain Facebook also asked for a dozen of similar pages which orketsbanden be exchanged, to close. According to Brain Facebook this page’s closed now, because it could be shown that the pages were used for the sharing of content without the permission of the copyright owners.
In the event of conflicts in the area of intellectual property could be an ex-parte injunction be applied for to the court. This ban will not be part of the place, and the counterparty is not heard. Such prohibition without rebuttal can only be enacted with great urgency and when there is an obvious infringement on the copyright.