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Viacom did not seek damages for any actions after Google put its Content ID filtering system in place in early 2008, and instead pursued declaratory relief on the ability of American copyright law in addressing Internet-enabled infringement. [8] The lawsuit was later merged with similar complaints being pursued by other copyright holders. [9]
Note: if no court name is given, according to convention, the case is from the Supreme Court of the United States.Supreme Court rulings are binding precedent across the United States; Circuit Court rulings are binding within a certain portion of it (the circuit in question); District Court rulings are not binding precedent, but may still be referred to by other courts.
[18] [19] Seigenthaler called Wikipedia a "flawed and irresponsible research tool" and criticized the Communications Decency Act's protection of Wikipedia, which is why the case was dropped. [18] [20] In 2007, three French nationals sued the Wikimedia Foundation when an article on Wikipedia described them as gay activists.
[8] [9] [10] Viacom, demanding $1 billion in damages, said that it had found more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of its material on YouTube that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times". YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works".
Wikimedia Foundation, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al. was a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation and several other organizations against the National Security Agency (NSA), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and other named individuals, alleging mass surveillance of Wikipedia users carried out by the NSA.
Upon announcing the new service, Cablevision was sued for direct copyright infringement by a consortium of television and movie copyright holders including Turner Broadcasting and its subsidiaries Cartoon Network and CNN; Twentieth Century Fox; NBCUniversal subsidiaries NBC and Universal Studios; Paramount Pictures; Disney and its subsidiary ...
In early September 2020, VidAngel reached a settlement in the lawsuit to pay damages of $9.9 million rather than the original $62.4 million ordered by the court. VidAngel also agreed not to filter or stream content made by the four studios, but it remains free to do so for content from other studios.
On May 1, 2014, Equals Three alleged that Jukin has filed at least 41 copyright infringement claims against them on YouTube, preventing them from earn advertising revenue from the affected episodes. Equals Three's inability to advertise allowed Jukin to place advertisements on the episodes, redirecting viewers to Jukin’s own YouTube channel.