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L.A. News Service Sues YouTube Over Beating Video

A Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage onto the popular Web site, including the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots.

Los Angeles News Service and its owner and operator, Robert Tur, assert in the lawsuit that in one week’s time, one version of the Denny beating uploaded by a YouTube user was viewed and downloaded 1,000 times via the site.

‘The scope of the infringements is akin to a murky moving target, in that videos uploaded are not identified by copyright owner or registration number but rather by the uploader’s idiosyncratic choice of descriptive terms to describe the content of the video — tags — making it extremely impractical to identify plaintiff’s copyrighted works,’ Tur alleges in the lawsuit filed by attorney Francis Pizzulli of Santa Monica.

This is one of those things that was bound to happen eventually. Are these idiots not aware that they can notify YouTube and they’ll promptly remove the videos? Hell, there were like 20 episodes of Beavis and Butthead on there I used to watch all the time, and guess what? Gone, with a copyright notice at the pages they used to be located. Anyone can do this.
But fuck it, sue the bastards anyway. I love America.

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