NBC Universal joins suit against YouTube
Things start to get darker for Google. NBC Universal joins the row of companies putting a lawsuit against Google’s YouTube, just days after English Premiere League did the same thing. The case involves a separate party, Los Angeles News Service operator Robert Tur, who sued YouTube in July for allowing its users to appropriate his famous footage of trucker Reginald Denny being beaten during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In a filing submitted late on Friday to the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California, NBC Universal and Viacom submitted a friend of the court brief opposing YouTube’s bid to dismiss the copyright infringement suit brought by Tur. NBC Universal is 80 percent owned by General Electric Co. and 20 percent owned by France’ Vivendi.
While NBC Universal (NBCU) has not sued YouTube itself, the court papers it filed in the Tur case make clear its view: “Many of NBCU’s most valuable copyrighted works have been copied, performed, and disseminated without authorization by YouTube and other similarly operated Websites. NBCU has a strong interest in preserving the strength and viability of all of its legal rights and remedies in response to such conduct.” The Tur complaint presages accusations by Viacom Inc., which filed its own copyright infringement suit against YouTube in March for over $1 billion in damages.
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another one who suits youtube
I dont know what’s worse, youtube that makes huge profits of things that should be free or the copyright holders who bitch about their content being used.
i understand the copyrights holders, its their job to keep the balance between moron people who post copyright materials just so they can show their nick in the net.
and those who pay money to enjoy it legally.
Yes small grainy jumpy video clips are losing money for the giant mega corporations. Granted the clips are technically infringing on copyright but not at the expense of anyone. If anything Google/Youtube is supplying millions in free advertising.
I’ll give an example.
Someone sent me (a link to) a clip from the TV series “Venture Bros” after watching the clip I went straight over to Amazon and bought the box set. If I had never seen the clip on Youtube I’d never have bought the DVD.
google mmhhh … sweet smell of money.
that’s why.
They heard there’s money in that thar google, and wanted a slice of the pie clearly.