NBCU sides against YouTube in piracy suit

Cory Bergman May 7th, 2007

Both NBCU and Viacom filed a friend of the court brief opposing YouTube’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Robert Tur, who sued YouTube over his Reginald Denny beating video. NBCU made it clear in the court papers that it had not sued YouTube itself. “Many of NBCU’s most valuable copyrighted works have been copied, performed, and disseminated without authorization by YouTube and other similarly operated Websites,” the brief said. “NBCU has a strong interest in preserving the strength and viability of all of its legal rights and remedies in response to such conduct.”