Another company wants a piece of Google pie - Mediaset

First we had Viacom then we had the Belgium newspaper group and now we have another company suing Google. Mediaset a media company is suing Google and Youtube for using copyrighted materials on their website.

According to reuters

"Mediaset, controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, joins others broadcasters seeking compensation from YouTube, a video-sharing website, for copyright infringement.
Mediaset filed suit in a Rome court, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. A YouTube spokeswoman said it did not see the need for the legal case.
"YouTube respects copyright holders and takes copyright issues very seriously," the spokeswoman said in London. Google bought YouTube in 2006.
"There is no need for legal action ... We prohibit users from uploading infringing material and we cooperate with all copyright holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content as soon as we are officially notified," Google said in a separate statement.

Lawsuits and trials in Italian are often lengthy and it is forecast the outcome.
Mediaset said a sample analysis of YouTube at June 10 found "at least 4,643 videos and clips owned by us, equivalent to more than 325 hours of transmission without having rights".
Mediaset said this was equal to the loss of 315,672 days of broadcasting by its three TV channels."

Well i have always said a lawsuit against youtube.com is not the best idea since youtube is a public resource and cannot be threatened. We will loose the freedom of internet if Youtube looses its way by lawsuits.

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