Copyright owners can't sue Google's YouTube as a group, judge says

U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan denied class-action status to copyright owners suing Google over the use of material posted on YouTube without their permission. Judge Stanton denied a motion to certify a worldwide class of copyright owners in a long-running lawsuit over videos and music posted to popular website. "The suggestion that a class action of these dimensions can be managed with judicial resourcefulness is flattering, but unrealistic," Judge Stanton wrote. Each copyright owner's case would need to be decided based on facts particular to their individual claims, Judge Stanton ruled.