June 6, 2007
French sports groups join suit against YouTube
France's top soccer league and its national tennis organization are the latest to join legal action against video-sharing site YouTube, according to News.com.
"The Federation Francaise de Tennis and Ligue de Football Professionnel, as well as New York-based Cherry Lane Music Publishing, have joined a class-action lawsuit that accuses YouTube and parent company Google of copyright violations, according to Louis Solomon, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the suit.
... Federation Francaise de Tennis is the group that puts on the French Open, one of the grand-slam events in tennis.
The Ligue de Football Professionnel manages two of France's top professional divisions, which produced French soccer great Zinedine Zidane. Broadcasts of league matches are seen in more than 150 countries, Solomon said.
Cherry Lane owns more than 65,000 copyrights, including the publishing rights to music from Elvis, Quincy Jones, and the Black Eyed Peas.
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