14 DAY TRIAL // Daniela Cicarelli, Viacom, Thailand, Turkey and Brazil are only some of the persons, companies or countries that sued or banned YouTube in the past. Why? Because the service was often accused for copyright infringement after its users uploaded videos without authorization. Today, I'll add another name on the list after T-Series, a music and entertainment company announced they sued Google for infringing their copyright after numerous audio and video clips were published on their online video sharing website.
The matter is a little more complicated as T-Series sustains their firms sent a subpoena to Google to remove the videos and the audio clips, but they decided to go to the court, as there was no official reply from the search giant. T-Series mentioned the letter was sent to Google's Asia vice-president Sukhinder Singh Cassidy but they didn't receive any response so they will take Google to the judge.
"We do not control the content on our site. Our users post the content on YouTube - including videos, comments and ratings. Our community guidelines and clear messaging on the site make it clear that users must own or have permission from copyright holders to post any videos. We take copyright issues very seriously. We prohibit users from uploading copyright protected material and we co-operate with copyright holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content," a Google representative said according to the online publication Business Standard.
As you surely know, this is not the first lawsuit filed against the company and that accuses YouTube for copyright infringement. The most well known complaint was filed recently by Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central that is also requiring $1 billion in damages.