YouTube, by the way, is facing new lawsuits over allegations that it is committing copyright violations by allowing users to upload unauthorised content onto their video sharing platform.
As previously reported, MTV owners Viacom have been most proactive in going legal against YouTube (early talk of litigation from the major record companies ended when, with the exception of EMI, they all reached licensing deals with the video platform), but music publisher Bourne Co and the Football Association Premier League have now both confirmed they are launching their own lawsuits against YouTube and its owners Google.
YouTube, for their part, continue to deny that they are guilty of any kind of copyright violation because they say they satisfy all the obligations put on them by the US's Digital Millennium Copyright Act - ie they remove copyrighted content off their platform if the content's owners ask them to. The content owners continue to dispute that such a removals policy is sufficient to sidestep liability (ie they argue that DMCA says YouTube and their ilk are responsible for stopping copyright content ever going live, not just removing it after the fact). Both sides seem incredibly adamant they are right, but in reality it's kind of untested water and it will be interesting to see which way judges go if and when one of these lawsuits goes to court.