A Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage onto the popular Web site, including the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots.
Los Angeles News Service and its owner and operator, Robert Tur, assert in the lawsuit that in one week’s time, one version of the Denny beating uploaded by a YouTube user was viewed and downloaded 1,000 times via the site.
“The scope of the infringements is akin to a murky moving target, in that videos uploaded are not identified by copyright owner or registration number but rather by the uploader’s idiosyncratic choice of descriptive terms to describe the content of the video — tags — making it extremely impractical to identify plaintiff’s copyrighted works,” Tur alleges in the lawsuit filed by attorney Francis Pizzulli of Santa Monica.
Tur is an award-winning journalist and helicopter pilot who has registered numerous copyrights for newsworthy footage, including O.J. Simpson’s slow-moving freeway chase, the attack on Denny at the intersection of Florence and Normandie avenues, and the violent North Hollywood shootout between police officers and bank robbers.
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If they did not want people to view the video this will only want people to see it more. Since viewing this article I have been looking for the video but can’t find it. If anyone could point me to the direction of a link it would be greatly appreciated.
Whats crazy is how anybody can own such a fabled piece of history and that anybody who wants to “see history” has to plunk down a buck or whatever to see it……..how retarded….
Thats a good point maybe that trucker will hear about this and do it
Shouldn’t the L.A news service be sued for not rendering AID or help or even calling police.