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YouTube Sued Over Fatal Crash Video

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The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is suing a number of online video sites, among them YouTube, for infringing on the copyright of footage from a fatal car accident.

The footage was captured by a NJTA video camera. The video shows a car on the New Jersey Turnpike crashing into the Great Egg Harbor toll plaza on May 10. The driver, a New Jersey resident, was killed.

Others named in the suit by the NJTA include NextPoint owner of the video site

The NJTA asked YouTube to remove the offending video from their site, which they did, but only to have it uploaded again by other users.

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YouTube says they removed the video "because it violated our terms of services. Because our removal also complied with our obligations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we see no legal basis for a claim."

As of May 22 the video had been viewed 24,346 times on YouTube, 213,295 times on LiveLeak and 16,812 times on break.com.

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