Google Case Judge Thwarts Class-Action Lawsuit Option for Copyright Holders

A federal district judge in New York recently ruled that copyright holders could not file a class-action suit against Google. The litigation involved files uploaded without the copyright holders' permission to Google-owned YouTube. According to a Reuters story picked up in today's siliconvalley.com, the judge in the case is the same jurist who dismissed Viacom's lawsuit against Google filed in 2007 for copyright infringement.