YouTube must face suit by Grammy winner over rights protection

Content ID, YouTube’s digital copyright management tool, that ferrets out unauthorised use of copyrighted material is at the heart of the case. — AP

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube failed to persuade a California judge to toss out a lawsuit by a Grammy-award winning composer accusing the video-sharing platform of not protecting her and other “ordinary” creators from unlawful copying and use of their work.

YouTube’s contentions in its motion to dismiss the suit are “unavailing”, US District Judge James Donato said in an order Monday.