More parties join Google copyright lawsuit by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

Another eight parties join the lawsuit charging Google's YouTube online service with deliberately encouraging copyright infringement, acording to music publisher Bourne & Co. New parties include the National Music Publishers' Association, the Rugby Football League, The Finnish Football League Association, author Daniel Quinn, and video programming owners who teamed up against the top online video service by accusing it of encouraging copyright infringement to boost traffic to it's site. In May, Google lost a copyright infringement law-suit, against Viacom, owner of MTV Networks, who demanded 1$ billion and the removal o hundreds of thousand of Viacom video clips that were uploaded without permission Google defends itself by claiming it is abiding by existing laws which protect Internet services from being liable for what they publish, as long as they respond promplty to complaints. "The clear and growing message to YouTube and Google is simple: their callous and opportunistic business model is contrary to right, contrary to law, and must and will be stopped," Premier League spokesman Dan Johnson said in a statement. "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." said Google after the original suit in May.

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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