Google subpoenaed by American Airlines Over Video
It was only a matter of time for copyrighted material to be uploaded to Google Video and for a company to go after the source. American Airlines wants Google to reveal the identity of a person who the airline says posted a copyrighted training video on Google’s video Web site. It will be interesting to see what Google does in this case. Our suggestion remains the same, don’t post anything unless you want to be found.
Filed under the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a subpoena issued Feb. 21 demands “all documents” concerning the person who posted a video titled “Flight Attendant, Upside Down,” on Google Video. The airline claims the clip was excerpted from a copyrighted training video. If the video is copyrighted, Google will probably be forced to comply, said Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based group that advocates for digital rights.
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