U.S. court rejects class action against YouTube

U.S. court rejects class action against YouTube

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In the dispute over copyright infringement on the online video platform YouTube, the operator has made Google a success. A court in New York rejected a request to summarize a number of cases in a huge class action. As justification led to the presiding judge Louis Stanton that copyright issues are often stored very differently and therefore had to be decided from case to case. Therefore a class action have little meaning.
In the case of Google's YouTube also logistical considerations would suggest otherwise. "The idea that a class action could be regulated by this dimension with judicial ingenuity, though flattering, but unrealistic," Stanton wrote in the court's opinion. Had the Court accepted the class action, the case would become a mammoth process.

The class action lawsuit was filed against YouTube among others, the English Premier League, the French Tennis Federation and a number of music publishers in 2007. According to the class action plaintiffs would have the interests of thousands injured bundled worldwide. A lawyer said that the plaintiff was considering a challenge to the decision. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment.

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