Football joins Football in a fight against Google’s YouTube.

 

It’s Class Action time for the ever more popular video web site.

You can see most of the English Premiership goals from the 2006/2007 season and a plethora of images; both past and present; none of them paid for, all bootlegs.

 

The Premier League

Cherry Lane Music Publishing/Bourne Co.

Ligue de Football Professionnel

The Federation Française de Tennis

 

Are combining to sue Google with Viacom mounting a case on its own. 

 

This issue has been bubbling over for a few months now.  The main contention is that YouTube/Google is making money from copyrighted images.  Being sought from the Class Actees is compensation for infringements and the adoption of monitoring technology in the future.

 

Some of the big boys are coming out to play and this will suck in other large broadcast organizations:  The NFL, The NBA, WWE, and Bundesliga to name a few.

 

Google claim ‘artistic impression’ might be infringed upon. 

 

A lot of money involved with some big players in the media industry; this could get rather tense and expensive.