James Delahunty
6 Jun 2007 4:18
The Federation Francaise de Tennis, the French national tennis organization and Ligue de Football Professionnel, the country's top soccer league, have joined legal action against Google's video sharing giant YouTube. Both joined a class action lawsuit that accuses Google of copyright violations. Bourne, a music publishing company and the English premier league filed the lawsuit last month.
YouTube has claimed that it has protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against being found responsible for the millions of copyrighted clips uploaded by third party users without permission to the service. Viacom sued YouTube for $1 billion back in March. Those in the class action lawsuit want unspecified damages and an injunction forcing YouTube to change its business model.
"We formed a firm conclusion that on Google and YouTube there is rampant copyright infringement," Louis Solomon, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the suit, said. "We think it's wrong and are eager for a judge to decide the issue." New York-based Cherry Lane Music Publishing also joined the class action lawsuit against YouTube. It owns more than 65,000 copyrights, including the publishing rights to music from Elvis.
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