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Eight more parties join in the copyright lawsuit against YouTube and Google

Google has drawn significant heat from copyright holders of materials uploaded by users to the YouTube video site. A pending class action lawsuit against Google claims YouTube deliberately encourages copyright infringement.

Recently more parties joined the lawsuit against Google,  the owners of YouTube, originally filed by Premier League Ltd and music publisher Bourne & Co. The new plaintiffs to the lawsuit are the National Music Publishers Association, the largest U.S. music publishing trade association, the Rugby Football League, the Finnish Football League Association and author Daniel Quinn.

Google continues to claim protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and removes all content posted without the copyright holder’s permission, once notified by the copyright holder.

In May, Viacom sued Google for $1 billion. Google said the lawsuit from Viacom threatened the way of Internet life. I have to wonder what effect all these lawsuits will have on the competitive offerings to YouTube, like the rumored rival from News Corp. and NBC, which have yet to launch. YouTube even recently announced they would be checking for copyrighted materials using digital fingerprints in an attempt to stem the flow of copyrighted materials online through YouTube.

“The clear and growing message to YouTube and Google is simple: their callous and opportunistic business model is contrary to right, contrary to law, and must and will be stopped," Premier League spokesman Dan Johnson said in a statement.


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isn't it amazing?
By marvdmartian on 8/8/2007 2:49:06 PM , Rating: 4
Isn't it amazing, how no one was too worried about suing over copyrighted materials on YouTube, UNTIL it was bought up by Google, who has billions of dollars in assets?? Amazing how the cockroaches crawled out from under their rocks at that point, isn't it??

And honestly, is the Rugby Football League & the Finnish Football League Association really going to lose out on that much income from someone posting clips on YouTube?? ;)




RE: isn't it amazing?
By djkrypplephite on 8/8/2007 3:31:02 PM , Rating: 5
You've obviously never experienced the mind-blowing games of Finnish football. <_< . . . >_>


RE: isn't it amazing?
By carl0ski on 8/10/2007 1:14:58 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
You've obviously never experienced the mind-blowing games of Finnish football. <_< . . . >_>


Well of course not these idiots tear it off Youtube before the wider audience gets to view them.

Finnish Football League must be morons if anyone outside Finland will give them money or even know what Finnish Football is

without first seeing it on Youtube for free


RE: isn't it amazing?
By Spivonious on 8/8/2007 3:56:33 PM , Rating: 2
I think that big businesses didn't know YouTube existed until Google made headlines by buying it.


RE: isn't it amazing?
By hubajube on 8/8/2007 4:49:16 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
I think that big businesses didn't know YouTube existed until Google made headlines by buying it.
I agree. Most big businesses are run by old guys and that are NOT tech savvy.


RE: isn't it amazing?
By Hare on 8/9/2007 5:38:39 AM , Rating: 2
Really? And the corporate lawyers and other folk surely had no idea either. They couldn't have just hinted that there was this company using their content and that they should sue? I would bet that they waited for a bigger company to buy YouTube so that they would have someone to sue who could also pay...


RE: isn't it amazing?
By v1001 on 8/9/2007 11:48:55 PM , Rating: 2
Poor google. I like them. This kind of junk just messes up a good thing and hurts us all.


RE: isn't it amazing?
By mcturkey on 8/8/2007 8:06:15 PM , Rating: 2
The problem, as I see it, is thus: Google has deep pockets. Deeper than probably anyone else who has ever been seriously attacked for copyright violations. Google knew they would be attacked when they bought YouTube. I suspect Google wants to not just change copyright law, but obliterate the stranglehold that all these media companies have on entertainment. If ever there was a company with the money and cajones to do it, it is Google. They will not just roll over and accept settlement terms that aren't beneficial to them, and they will take the fight all the way up the legal ladder to SCOTUS if that's what it takes.


RE: isn't it amazing?
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 8/9/2007 8:19:00 AM , Rating: 3
Microsoft has deeper pockets, but they get smacked with Anti-Trust violations, not Copyright :)


RE: isn't it amazing?
By carl0ski on 8/10/2007 1:18:35 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
Microsoft has deeper pockets, but they get smacked with Anti-Trust violations, not Copyright :)


Just you wait with the poor quality of the Windows Media Copy protection over the past year some smart arse lawyer will sue ms for copyright infringement for their failure to deliver the perfect copyright protection container they promised.


RE: isn't it amazing?
By Regs on 8/9/2007 1:21:51 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, just like how someone wins the lottery and all of sudden your getting sued by ex-wives, your kids and other realitives, and any moron you tap on the bumper on the road.

The more money you have, the more money they want. Government, foundations, ...


By psyph3r on 8/8/2007 5:03:26 PM , Rating: 2
this makes me feel sick inside knowing that the best business model today has nothing to do with producing, inventing, or contributing in any way to society. They are all leeches. If only half of them knew how much of an advertising model youtube really is. maybe Google should counter sue them for unpaid advertising costs based on views...I'm certain they can show a direct correlation between youtube presence and success.




By amandahugnkiss on 8/8/2007 11:26:06 PM , Rating: 3
"knowing that the best business model today has nothing to do with producing, inventing, or contributing in any way to society."

Are you talking about Google or the others? ;)


By derwin on 8/10/2007 9:35:36 PM , Rating: 2
Are you kidding me? How much better is this world now that we have google and youtube? How much potential to be even more amazing is there thanks to these two things? How great is it that google can make a massive profit off advertising and not be obnoxious to its users???


Nice
By mdogs444 on 8/8/2007 2:49:36 PM , Rating: 2
I dont know whats funnier...

The fact that Viacom wants $1 Billion because no one wants to buy their 1980's remake cartoons....

or

The chunky kid with the light saber doing the truffle shuffle

"Cmon chunk, do the truffle shuffle!"




RE: Nice
By A5un on 8/8/2007 3:07:31 PM , Rating: 2
I think definitely the chunky kid with the light sabre


Riiiight
By Polynikes on 8/8/2007 5:32:36 PM , Rating: 2
In the cases of sporting events... It's not like someone's gonna go back and watch a game they've already seen, and if they are watching it it probably means the team didn't get whatever revenues they would've gotten from that person because they weren't at the game, nor did they watch it on TV if it was televised. If they didn't watch it on TV, it DOESN'T MATTER, because the team got paid their advertising money BEFORE it aired. What asinine, old, rich bastards.




RE: Riiiight
By themadmilkman on 8/9/2007 3:35:47 AM , Rating: 2
Not that I agree w/ the lawsuit at hand, because I don't, but the single broadcast is not the only time that somebody can make money off of that particular event. Say a football team goes on to win the Superbowl. Sports Illustrated makes a DVD of their season, using, among other things, previously televised footage. Guess who SI has to pay to use that footage?


Go GOOGLE!!!!!!
By euclidean on 8/8/2007 10:32:57 PM , Rating: 2
My stocks are still going up....not too worried about this myself. I'll just keep praising google as they change and take over the world :D




I misread that as
By Visual on 8/9/2007 7:59:10 AM , Rating: 2
More Pirates Join the Google Copyright Lawsuit.

and so I thought - good, google would have some teammates in that fight.
but unfortunately it was only more sharks that are joining. ninja-sharks. i'm getting worried.




Any advertisers involved?
By enlil242 on 8/8/2007 3:33:22 PM , Rating: 1
Hmmmm, I wonder if any of the thousands of advertisers out there are involved in the suit. At least half of the videos I watch are nothing but regular old commercials ... from all over the world. (last one being the DirecTV ad with Ripley from Alien)

They should be paying YouTube for the advertising space!




haha
By omnicronx on 8/8/07, Rating: 0
"If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else." -- Microsoft Business Group President Jeff Raikes