The U.K.’s Premier League Football Assocation and other owners of copyrighted works were dealt an ‘offisides’ ruling by a federal judge in a class-action case against YouTube and Google.

U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton handed two major ‘Goooooaaaallllllls!!!!!’ to the defendants. Here’s why.

Arsenal, Manchester United, and Liverpool fans, take note!

Second, the plaintiffs’ punitive damage claims.  “As a matter of law,” Judge Stanton held, the Copyright Act doesn’t allow for the reocvery of punitive damages.

YouTube and Google lawyers probably gave the following shout after the ruling:

  • Judge Curbs YouTube Suit on Copyrights (The Wall Street Journal, Jul. 9, 2009)
  • Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.)Copyright and Intellectual Property
  • The Football Association Premier League
  • Louis Solomon, Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs at Proskauer Rose
  • Mayer Brown, LLP, Co-Counsel for Defendants

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