YouTube is entangled in television rights

On January 26, twentieth-century Fox film school asked international company Google to appear in court about someone uploading a video service page sharing YouTube some of the pirated chapters of the show series. TV " 24 " and "The Simpsons "

Kiefer Sutherland star of TV series 24 has appeared on YouTube before the broadcast schedule of the host television channel

The lawsuit was previously filed with the Northern California District Court (US) from January 18, with the request of YouTube to transfer information to the identity of the other subscriber, through which Fox could terminate the job. violate.

The plaintiff's statement said that the four intriguing chapters of the 24-series television series, star Kiefer Sutherland, appeared online before the broadcast schedule of the mainstream TV channel, and the 12 chapters of the Simpsons are available. dispersed on YouTube by a subscriber called alias " ECOtotal ".

Fox has made an official announcement on its blog, Google Watch, which tells YouTube about those chapters and offers to immediately remove or disable access to this file group.

Elsewhere, it was the same chapters that were uploaded to the LiveDigital video site under a Jorge Romero username, as if provoking Fox to file a lawsuit.

LiveDigital's spokesperson said the other item had been dropped from the network immediately. Meanwhile, Google and Fox are not ready to comment on the case.

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