Universal, whose artists include U2, Mary J Blige and Mariah Carey, said it is seeking damages up to as much as 150,000 for each incident of copyright infringement plus costs. It estimated that thousands of music videos were being viewed on both sites, to their benefit alone.
"Grouper and Bolt.
.. cannot reasonably expect to build compensating the content creators," a Universal spokesman said.
The lawsuits were filed late on Monday at the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Western Division.
for comment.
Entertainment agreed to buy in August, and privately held copying, reformatting, distributing and creating derivative works from Universal's musicians.
The lawsuit also made clear that Universal, which is owned by French media company Vivendi, will retain the right to add Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp (NYSE: - ).
to the suit going forward.
infringement" of Universal's copyright, comparing it with the infringement of Universal s copyright, comparing it with the have both been made to pay damages in similar cases." /> have both been made to pay damages in similar cases.
Web sites on the Internet," the related lawsuit says.
sharing service YouTube.com, which has agreed to be acquired by Web search leader Google Inc.
for 1.65 billion.
copyright infringement.
But the music company reached a announced.
According to online audience measurement firm comScore, Grouper had just 1.8 million visitors.
YouTube had 72.
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