YouTube is getting sued
Our friendly high trafficked video site is getting sued by a news service, along with its owner, Robert Tur.The lawsuit alleges YouTube's sharing of its videos infringes on copyright violations. There is another lawsuit, in which the owner of the news site is suing YouTube for letting its users upload a video that he shot of Reginald Denny getting beat up during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
The news site, and owner, are trying to weasel $150,000 for each video that had its copyright violated on YouTube. They are also pushing the courts to forbid any other uploads of any of his work through YouTube. Tur also shot the famous OJ Simpson car chase.The videos on YouTube are apparently tagged with names that are irrelevant to the content in the videos, making it difficult for copyright owners to locate infringing content.
