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YouTube Faces Another Legal Challenge
By: AP   |   May 05,2007
England's top soccer league and an indie music publisher sued YouTube on Friday, saying the online video pioneer was engaging in widespread copyright infringement to bring traffic to the site.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by The Football Association Premier League Ltd. and publisher Bourne Co., asked for unspecified damages and YouTube's profits from the material in question. It also sought class action status.

Named as defendants were YouTube Inc., YouTube LLC and YouTube's corporate parent, Google Inc., which bought YouTube in November for $1.76 billion.

YouTube's system of allowing users to access and post video clips has drawn copyright complaints in the past. Viacom Inc., the owner of MTV, VH1, Comedy Central and other cable networks, filed a $1 billion copyright lawsuit in March against the hugely popular video-sharing site and Google.

YouTube says it cooperates with all copyright holders and removes programming as soon as it is notified.

Google general counsel Kent Walker defended YouTube in a news release.

''These suits simply misunderstand the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which balances the rights of copyright holders against the need to protect Internet communications and content,'' he said.

''They threaten the way people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic expression over the Internet.''

Several media companies have reached agreements to supply YouTube with clips, including CBS Corp. and the British Broadcasting Corp, but many others remain reluctant to deal with the Web site because of copyright concerns.

General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal has a deal to promote its shows on YouTube but recently criticized the site and Google for not doing more to prevent copyrighted material from being posted online.

The Premier League, generally considered the world's best soccer league, claims an estimated 2.59 billion viewers in 204 countries. Bourne calls itself one of the leading independent publishers of music in the United States.
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