It was said that YouTube was a copyright infringement lawsuit waiting to happen. When Google acquired the company, they put enough stock in that notion that budget funds were set aside for legal battles. YouTube turned out to be many lawsuits waiting to happen. But thanks to a U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton of the Southern District of New York, they now have a few less lawsuits to worry about. The judge threw out claims for statutory and punitive damages brought against YouTube by a madding crowd of people even including a European soccer league. The judge reminded the plaintiffs that works created outside of the United States were not covered by copyright law.
Since the soccer players are only a small part of a large class action suit that includes American plaintiffs, and since the powerful Viacom company is also seeking damages against YouTube for American works that are covered by American copyright law, it seems to me that the chances of YouTube escaping this completely unharmed are not very good. Read more here and here.
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