Universal to Sue YouTube
Posted September 16, 2006 10:08 PM
It appears that Universal Music may be preparing to file a lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement. [Lawgarithms]
As I've stated before elsewhere, unlike Grokster, YouTube is not a business built on copyright infringement. There is tons of user generated content and YouTube quickly complies with copyright owners' requests to have their materials taken down from the site.
If I were their lawyer, I'd advise them to post "This video has been removed as per the request of the copyright owner" rather than admitting "due to copyright infringement" as they do in the above. (h/t Nipper)
Another lawyer looking to represent YouTube, Ron from DC, says that YouTube does not induce copyright infringements. Watch what he has to say on YouTube with this informative video entitled: Youtube Sued! Will Copyright Kill The Video Star?
Related/Updated: Here's YouTube’s answer to the copyright lawsuit filed by Robert Tur, a Los Angeles pilot and journalist. Tur alleged that his copyright-protected video footage of truck driver Reginald Denny's beating in the city's 1992 race riots was uploaded and viewed on YouTube in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and related laws. YouTube's answer maintains that the company "respects third parties' intellectual property rights," complies with the DMCA’s "Safe Harbor" provisions, and is "a service provider...immune from liability from copyright infringement..."