Update: actual class action complaint embedded below.
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We reported previously that the English Premier League, the football/soccer body in England, was riled about YouTube's use of unauthorized clips. Now it's going to the courts: the Premier League, along with sheet music publisher Bourne Co., has filed a class action suit against YouTube, adding more legal woes to the $1 billion suit brought by Viacom.
Soccer is big business: the Premier League took £2.7 billion (US $5.4 billion) for the TV, radio and internet rights to live games and highlights over the next three years. It's the most lucrative football league in the world, with games shown in 204 countries worldwide. The action has been filed in a New York federal court.
What's more, the Premier League is drumming up support from others, essentially declaring all-out war on Google and YouTube. They've set up YouTubeClassAction.com, which argues the Leagues' side of the case and invites others to join the class action.