Litigation Against YouTube. U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals Sides With Tur
On July 14, 2006, Tur's news operation was first to file a historic lawsuit in U.S. District Court against YouTube, to protect the rights of copyright holders. The lawsuit alleges hundreds of copyright infringements that have led to hundreds of illegal downloads. Among the works involved is the attack on Reginald Denny by a mob at the intersection of Florence and Normandie in South-Central Los Angeles, shot minutes after four white Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King.
On April 5, 2012, the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Tur, and his fellow plaintiff, media giant Viacom, Inc., ruling that the plaintiff's had presented enough evidence against YouTube to warrant a trial, and the case should not have been thrown out in summary judgement because "a jury could conclude that Youtube had direct knowledge of the infringing activity." The court did uphold the ruling that YouTube could not be held liable based on "general knowledge" that users on its site were infringing copyright. The case will be sent back to the District Court in New York to be tried. The case is worth more than 1 billion dollars in statutory and actual damages.
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