Judge Orders Counsel to Remove Deposition Excerpt From YouTube

Jeffrey Weinstein's client was so outraged by the deposition testimony in her fraud suit against a Houston car dealership that Weinstein posted an excerpt from the deposition on YouTube and put a link to the video on his firm's Web site. Law.com reports.

But the video isn't on YouTube anymore.

Although law professors say lawyers can, under most circumstances, do what they want with deposition testimony, the defendant in the litigation secured a court order on Dec. 3 that forced Weinstein to take down the video on the ground it wasn't a public record. This is a cautionary tale for lawyers who may be thinking of using YouTube -- a Web site that allows users to load videos -- or other online mediums such as MySpace or Facebook to disseminate deposition testimony.

emily | 11:24 AM | YouTube |
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