Posted by Barlow Keener

There is a now a second lawsuit against Google/YouTube for copyright infringement.  The class action complaint, Football Association Premier League Ltd and Bourne Co. v YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC, and Google, Inc., was filed on on Friday, May 4, 2007, in the U.S. District Court Southern Discrict New York, and is 39 pages in length.  One of the demands for relief in the complaint is for “disgorgement of all profits, direct and/or indirect, illegally gained.”  This demand is in apparent reference to claim 69 (page 25) of the complaint which alleges that YouTube used the videos and music to help build itself up in order to be sold to Google for $1.65 billion which was a “direct financial benefit.” The complaint also alleges that Google’s stock share rose as a indirect result of the YouTube purchase which resulted increasing Google’s market cap by “billions of dollars.” 

The first lawsuit against Google, Viacom v Google, Youtube,  was filed on March 13, 2007, in the same court, the U.S. District Court Southern District New York.  The Viacom v Google complaint also made a demand for relief of more than a billion dollars.