YouTube maybe be a great way to uploade videos and share them but they will have a lot of headache controlling the materials on it.
A Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. last 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.
Los Angeles News Service and its owner and operator, Robert Tur, assert in the lawsuit that in one week's time, one version of the Denny beating uploaded by a YouTube user was viewed and downloaded 1,000 times via the site.
'The scope of the infringements is akin to a murky moving target, in that videos uploaded are not identified by copyright owner or registration number but rather by the uploader's idiosyncratic choice of descriptive terms to describe the content of the video - tags - making it extremely impractical to identify plaintiff's copyrighted works,' said Robert Tur, the agency's owner. Tur is seeking $150,000 for each work infringed upon and a court order enjoining YouTube from allowing his work to be posted on the Web site.
The Los Angeles News Service Sues YouTube source
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