Long-running YouTube Content ID lawsuit collapses following class action decision
completemusicupdate.comThe big Content ID legal battle being led by musician Maria Schneider is over. Plaintiffs in the long-running litigation dismissed their action on Sunday – the day before a trial was due to begin – after the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court declined to intervene on an earlier decision by the judge overseeing the case to deny it class action status.Schneider and others argued that YouTube does not do enough to help independent creators to stop the unlicensed distribution of their content on the video site.
Because, while YouTube’s Content ID is a sophisticated rights management system, it is only available to large copyright owning businesses and content aggregators.Independent creators have to manually monitor and manage the unlicensed use of their content by users on the YouTube platform.
And the manual system provided by YouTube is defective, the plaintiff’s alleged, meaning that the Google-owned company isn’t fulfilling its obligations under copyright law to ensure that all and any copyright owners can stop the infringement of their works on its platform.There were plenty of twists and turns as Schneider’s lawsuit went through the motions.
An initial co-plaintiff had to drop out after it emerged that he had employed dodgy tactics in a bid to get access to Content ID.
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