YouTube LLC won another round in its long-running battle with copyright owners. In May, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan denied class certification to plaintiffs who argued that their rights were infringed when material to which they hold the rights was posted on the YouTube website, which features user-generated video and audio.
In a 13-page order, Stanton ruled that the copyright claims against YouTube are far too individualized to be resolved on a classwide basis. Noting that the site's traffic now exceeds 1 billion daily views, the judge wrote that the "suggestion that a class action of these dimensions can be managed with judicial resourcefulness is flattering, but unrealistic."
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