England's Top Soccer organization English Premier League is going to sue YouTube for alleged infringement of copyright saying that YouTube is knowingly engaged in copyright infringement to bring traffic to site.
Google-owned YouTube is already facing a $1bn lawsuit from media giant Viacom, accusing it of illegally showing clips from its TV shows.
The English Premier League and US music publisher Bourne launched the legal action in New York and asked for unspecified damages and YouTube's profits from the material in question. Due to increase in commercial value of English Premier League, protection of rights has become priority for the soccer organization.According to an expert, YouTube was coming under increasing pressure over the issue of copyright and he expected it to eventually settle with its various plaintiffs.
[ Via BBC ]
