14 DAY TRIAL // Oh my God, I admit that YouTube is continuously infringing the copyrights, but this is already too much! It seems like a new organization is looking to sue the company after they published videos without authorization. Same reason, same complaints, different actors. Mashable reports that British boxing entrepreneur Robert Waterman plans to fill a lawsuit against YouTue because the video service published videos of the WBO match between Vladimir Klitschko and Ray Austin.
Although the things are a little complicated, this is how it happened: Robert Waterman owns SecondsOut, a company that displays numerous boxing videos on the Internet, has an exclusive deal to display the match between the two boxers. His site is based on the pay-per-view technology, so the amount of profit depends on the number of visitors. Although the partnership was known, YouTube's users uploaded a clip with the match that already has more than 100.000 views. Now, Robert Waterman plans to sue YouTube because they uploaded videos without authorization, accusing the company for infringing his copyright.
As you surely know, this is not the first case when YouTube is accused of copyright infringement. The boxing entrepreneur is requiring $1 million in damages but the sum is somehow a piece of cake for Google because Viacom demands $1 billion. Recently, Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central ordered the company to remove almost 100.000 clips from the page because they consider Google receives praise and money without paying for the content. After the removal was almost completed, Viacom decided to make the next step and filed a lawsuit against Google, sustaining the company published their videos without authorization.
In the past, there were numerous other copyright infringement cases but the most known ones are surely the ones filed by Viacom and the one concerning Daniela Cicarelli, Ronaldo's ex-wife.