Cal IV Entertainment, a music publishing company that owns the copyrights to several hit singles including songs by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, among others, has filed a class action lawsuit against YouTube.
Cal IV Entertainment claims that YouTube hosts more than sixty of the company's copyrighted songs, accusing YouTube of copyright infringement. While Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit threatening the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, several of the other lawsuits cropping up from smaller parties address the fact that YouTube does little to prevent the repeat behavior of copyright infringement from its users. Cal IV would like YouTube to be more aggressive with its policy regarding repeat offenders, terminating these users and monitoring these efforts. It's understandably difficult for companies and individuals to track all the copyrighted content and submit takedown notices.
Other lawsuits against YouTube include France’s Tennis Federation (Federation Francaise de Tennis), a French soccer League (Ligue de Football Professione), and Cherry Lane Music Publishing Group, which have joined the England's Premier League and Robert Tur, among others.