Germany: Criminal
Investigation against Google
A criminal investigation
has been launched against Google in Hamburg, Germany,
because of its YouTube web site. Jens Schippmann, attorney
of a group of several German independent labels, publishers
and artists has filed claims with the public prosecutor's
office. He alleges that Google didn't respond to requests to
take down more than 8000 infringing videos and that users
would utilize YouTube as a kind of "covert file-sharing
platform".
It is still unclear if
the ongoing investigation will ever lead to a court case.