Breaking news: YouTube sued
I'm writing this from my Treo. I'll have more when I get back in front of a computer.
From the Hollywood Reporter:
A Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage onto the popular Web site, including the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots. Tur alleges YouTube is violating the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision in MGM v. Grokster.
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"YouTube.com is not merely Grokster redux," Tur claims. "For unlike the peer-to-peer file sharing systems at issue in the Grokster case, YouTube provides the computer servers and 'world-class data centers' which allow users to upload video clips directly to YouTube's servers."
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Tur seeks $150,000 for each work infringed upon and a court order enjoining YouTube from allowing his work to be posted on the Web.
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The library association, librarians association, or whatever it is called has already tried to take on the {RI,MP}AA over coloring books and similar materials the *AAs introduced several years ago into grade schools to further the *AAs agendas. The librarians were outraged at the extremely slanted view of copyright laws these materials were promoting.
Let's hear it for the librarians! I suspect they might also have something to say about slanted school assemblies.
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