The law firm of Camara & Sibley has decided to take on document-sharing website Scribd in a big way, seeking class action status against the site in a lawsuit filed Friday in a Texas federal court. The charge: like YouTube, Veoh, and other user-generated content sites, Scribd makes it just too easy to upload copyrighted content without permission, and the company should be held liable… and pay up.
Source: ars technica
See Also: Jammie Thomas lawyers file suit against Scribd (via News.com)
Scribd managers have “built a technology that’s broken barriers to copyright infringement on a global scale and in the process have also built one of the largest readerships in the world,” the attorneys representing the class wrote in the complaint. “The company shamelessly profits from the stolen copyrighted works of innumerable authors.”
See Also: Case Docket
See Also: Full Text of Complaint filed by Elaine Scott (22 pages; PDF)
See Also: Scribd fires back, denies violating copyright (via News.com
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