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

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday denied class-action status to copyright owners suing Google Inc over the use of material posted on YouTube without their permission. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan denied a motion to certify a class of copyright owners in a long-running lawsuit over videos and music posted to popular website. The case ran in parallel with a $1 billion lawsuit by Viacom Inc filed in 2007. ...

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