YouTube Clone PornoTube Sued
by
Red Herring Staff
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11 December 2007, 18:36
Categories:
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General news
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Media
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Internet
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google
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PornoTube
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Vivid Entertainment
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adult films
Adult-film maker Vivid Entertainment Group on Monday said it is suing PornoTube, a YouTube-like web site for porn videos, over alleged copyright infringement.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, names Data Conversions, which operates Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network and PornoTube.com.
The “defendant’s business plan depends on the uploading, posting, display, and performance of copyrighted audio-visual works belonging to Vivid and others,” Vivid’s suit claims.
The porn maker seeks a permanent injunction, a move that would shut PornoTube off from further infringement, and $4.5 million in damages.
Copyright infringement suits are nothing new online. The most high-profile recent example involved Google’s YouTube, the video-sharing site sued in March by Viacom for $1 billion over alleged copyright infringement.
In September, musician Prince began preparing lawsuits against YouTube, eBay, and The Pirates Bay, according to various reports, for allegedly encouraging copyright infringement.