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The law firm of Camara & Sibley has decided to take on Scribd, seeking class action status against the site in a lawsuit filed in a Texas federal court. The charge: Like YouTube, Veoh, and other user-generated content sites, Scribd makes it just too easy to upload copyrighted content without permission, and the company should be held liable… and pay up.
According to the Camara & Sibley web site:
“Scribd is a web site that publishes books submitted by users and makes these books available to users to download. Among the books that Scribd publishes are many books that are under copyright but that have been submitted to Scribd without any license or permission from the copyright holder. With respect to these works — which comprise a large part of the most popular works available on Scribd — Scribd is engaged in flagrant copyright infringement and in facilitating the copyright infringement of its users.
Scribd makes money in large part through advertising: it uses the copyrighted works that it publishes on its site to drive traffic to that site, where it displays ads targeted based on the content of the copyrighted works that a user requests. This advertising revenue is the direct result of Scribd’s piracy of coprighted works. Scribd’s investors include Paul Graham’s Y Combinator, Redpoint Ventures, The Kinsey Hills Group, and Charles River Ventures.
Elaine Scott, a Houston-based author of award-winning childrens’ books, has engaged Camara & Sibley to file suit against Scribd on behalf of herself and all other authors’ whose copyrighted works have been added to Scribd’s database without their permission.
Tim Nyberg will serve as lead counsel for the plaintiffs.”
For more information read also the article on arstechnica.com.
Ironically, the people at the Camara & Sibley law firm have posted a copy of the suit on the Scribd.com web site.
