| Case | Case Filed | Last Document |
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| The Football Association Premier League Limited et al v. Youtube, Inc. et al | May 4, 2007 | November 6, 2009 |
| Plaintiff filed a class action law suit against YouTube and Google for allowing users to upload and distribute media that infringed on plaintiff's copyrights. |
| Viacom International Inc. et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al | October 20, 2008 | September 28, 2009 |
| Brave New Films 501 (C)(4) v. Weiner et al | October 10, 2008 | September 15, 2009 |
| Talk radio host Michael Weiner (aka Michael Savage) and his syndication network, Original Talk Radio Network, filed a DMCA takedown request for YouTube to remove a video made by Brave New Films containing clips of Savage's commentary. Brave New Films is suing Savage and OTRN for a declaratory judgment that Savage's material in the video is a fair use. Plaintiff is also suing Savage and OTRN for damages and injunctive relief, based on alleged misrepresentations made via the takedown notice to YouTube. |
| Viacom International, Inc. et al v. Youtube, Inc. et al | March 13, 2007 | September 14, 2009 |
| Plaintiffs Viacom International Inc., Comedy Partners, Country Music Television, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, and Black Entertainment Television LLC alleged that Defendants YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC and Google Inc. infringed Plaintiffs' copyrights. |
| Ligeri v. Youtube, Inc. et al | August 14, 2008 | September 10, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Benjamin Ligeri sued Defendants YouTube Inc., YouTube LLC, Google Inc. and various YouTube and Google employees and agents and alleged that Defendants had not compensated him for the traffic generated by videos Plaintiff had uploaded to YouTube. |
| GraphOn Corporation v. Google Inc. | August 13, 2008 | June 5, 2009 |
| Plaintiff GraphOn Corporation alleged that Defendant Google Inc. infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 6,324,538 and 6,850,940 entitled "Automated On-Line Information Services and Directory, Particularly for the World Wide Web," and U.S. Patent Nos. 7,028,034 and 7,269,591 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Providing a Dynamically-Updating Pay-For-Service Web Site." |
| Viacom International Inc. et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al | June 20, 2008 | December 30, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Viacom International, Inc., et al. sought to compel production of documents by non-party Respondents Artis Capital Management L.P., Sequoia Capital Operations LLC and TriplePoint Capital LLC. |
| Beneficial Innovations, Inc. v. AOL, LLC. et al | December 20, 2007 | February 11, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Beneficial Innovations, Inc. alleges that Defendants infringed on U.S. Patent Nos. 6,712,702 entitled "Method and System for Playing Games on a Network" and 6,183,336 entitled "Network Gaming System." |
| Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation v. YouTube, Inc. | October 30, 2006 | November 9, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation operates a website at utube.com. Plaintiff alleges that as a result of confusion in the minds of consumers, the spillover of nuisance traffic to plaintiff's website has destroyed the value of plaintiff's trademark and internet property, repeatedly caused the shut down of plaintiff's website, increased plaintiff's internet costs and damaged the plaintiff's good reputation. |
| Antor Media Corporation v. Metacafe, Inc. | March 27, 2007 | November 5, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Antor Media Corporation alleged that MetaCafe, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,734,961 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Information Recorded on Information Storage Means from a Central Server to Subscribers via a High Data Rate Digital Telecommunications Network." |
| Cal IV Entertainment, LLC v. Youtube, Inc. et al | June 7, 2007 | July 10, 2007 |
| Plaintiff, a music publishing company, alleges that Defendants infringed its copyrights by allowing users to upload videos containing plaintiff's copyrighted works and providing access to certain content filtering technologies only to existing business partners. |
| Requa v. Kent School District No 415 et al | May 17, 2007 | June 26, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Gregory Requa sued Defendants Kent School District No. 415, Barbara Grohe (Superintendent) and Michael Albrecht (Principal) for violating his federal and state constitutional rights of free speech and due process, as well as depriving him of his liberty and property rights. Plaintiff alleges that he was suspended for 40 school days for posting a video on YouTube.com criticizing a teacher at the high school. |
| Grisman et al v. YouTube, Inc. et al | May 10, 2007 | May 25, 2007 |
| Plaintiffs, owners of Dawg Music, allege that Defendants infringed on plaintiff's protected works and refused to deter infringing activities. |
| NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE AUTHORITY v. YOUTUBE, INC. et al | May 22, 2007 | May 24, 2007 |
| Plaintiff New Jersey Turnpike Authority captured a car accident on video that occurred at the Great Egg Harbor toll plaza in Somers Point, New Jersey. Plaintiff asserts that the video is the copyright property of the NJTA and has filed an application with the US Copyright Office to obtain federally registered copyrights for the accident video. This video was subsequently uploaded to YouTube.com, LiveLeak.com and Break.com. |
| IN RE: YouTube, Inc. | March 20, 2007 | March 20, 2007 |
| Lucia Eams sought a subpoena to discover the identity of the person who had uploaded unauthorized copies of works to YouTube that infringed her copyrights. |
| v. YouTube, Inc. | January 18, 2007 | February 14, 2007 |
| Riches v. Crocker et al | December 13, 2007 | |
| Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v. YouTube, Inc. | August 29, 2007 | |
| Lenz v. Universal Music Group Inc. et al | July 24, 2007 | |
| EXPLOROLOGIST LIMITED v. SAPIENT | May 7, 2007 | |
| Plaintiff Explorologist Ltd. alleged that Defendant Brian Sapient a/k/a Brian J. Cutler d/b/a Rational Response Squad for infringing British copyright law. Defendant allegedly uploaded to YouTube a sequence of images entitled "James Randi exposes Uri Geller and Peter Popoff," which included portions of the film "Dr Hughes." |
| Tur v. YouTube Inc | July 14, 2006 | |
| Tur v. YouTube SJ Motions Denied. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. |
| Paramount Pictures Corporation v. YouTube, Inc. | May 4, 2006 | |
