![]() US District Judge James Donato ruled last month that Schneider’s case wasn’t suitable for class certification because each claim by a copyright owner would “require highly individualized inquires.” In her proposed class action, Schneider said she and other artists had been denied access to Content ID, and could only find infringing content through the normal search function. ![]() She also would have contended that YouTube also stripped the copyright management information from 10 of her works. Schneider would have argued at trial that YouTube infringed 27 of her musical works when they were uploaded to the platform without her permission. ![]() Without the backing of a large group of similarly affected artists, Schneider would have had to try the case on her own, and the potential damages and injunctions she could win would have been limited. It said it wouldn’t grant her permission to appeal a lower court’s denial of class certification for her case, which would have greatly expanded the number of copyright owners who could join the suit. The federal appeals court on June 9 denied Schneider’s emergency motion to stay the case. Schneider failed last week to convince the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit to pause the trial. Schneider, who has been a strong advocate for musician’s rights, argued in her 2020 lawsuit that YouTube’s Content ID system is available only to large movie studios and record labels, while independent artists like herself are left with few options to combat piracy on the platform.Ĭontent ID is a digital finger-printing system developed in 2007 that allows copyright owners to quickly remove infringing content or divert ad revenue from pirated videos. Accompanying dismissal papers said each party would bear their own attorneys’ fees and expenses. The US District Court for the Northern District of California closed the case on Sunday. Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider voluntarily dismissed her copyright lawsuit against YouTube LLC over its Content ID anti-piracy system the day before it was set to go to a jury trial in San Francisco federal court.
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