The widespread legal challenges that some experts have long predicted would dog Google’s YouTube appear to have arrived.
On Friday, the Football Association Premier League, England’s most prestigious soccer organization, filed suit in New York against the massively popular video-sharing site, accusing it of enabling users to violate copyright law. On the same day, in California, NBC Universal and Viacom filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of journalist Bob Tur, who in a lawsuit filed last summer accused YouTube of infringing on his copyrighted material by posting without his permission video he shot during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
And reports out of Thailand indicate that the government there is considering suing YouTube for displaying a video that it claims is offensive to the nation’s monarch.
But not even an angry king poses as much of a threat to YouTube as repeated accusations that the Web’s largest video site enables the theft of intellectual property, analysts say.
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