In a move reminiscent of South Park’s “
Canada On Strike” episode in which the boys decide to upload a video onto Youtube in hopes of earning money, a popular YouTube user has decided to sue YouTube and Google for what he considers should be his profits.
The user BennyBaby, real name Ben Ligeri, is suing both of these entities for 1 million dollars.
According to InformationWeek “Legeri calculates that his daily YouTube traffic of 11,200 views represents between 1/9000 and 1/500 of YouTube's 100 million views per day. Thus, he estimates that his traffic is worth between $200,000 and $3.6 million […]”.
While other users with thousands of hits each day might support Mr. Ligeri in his quest to receive profits from YouTube and Google, unfortunately most users who sign up on websites fail to actually read the Terms and Conditions that they have agreed to.
In this case, YouTube clearly states in Part 6 Section C of their
Terms of Use “[…]by submitting User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website […]” and in Part 14 of the agreement it states “You and YouTube agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the YouTube website must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred.”
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