The Volokh Conspiracy - I Can Just Imagine the <i>24</i> Season Organized Around This Plot Line:

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

20th Century Fox served YouTube with a subpoena Wednesday demanding the Google-owned viral video site disclose the identity of a user who uploaded copies of entire recent episodes of primetime series "24" and "The Simpsons".

The subpoena, which first came to light on the blog Google, was granted by a judge in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after being filed ... on January 18. It is not yet known whether YouTube has complied with the request....

The "24" episodes in question actually appeared on YouTube prior to their primetime January 14 premiere on the Fox broadcast network, which spread four hourlong episodes of the hit drama over two consecutive nights. Fox became aware the episodes were on YouTube on January 8, according to the subpoena....

Thanks to BNA's Internet Law News for the pointer.

	[Eugene Volokh, January 25, 2007 at 4:54pm] Trackbacks I Can Just Imagine the 24 Season Organized Around This Plot Line: The Hollywood Reporter reports: 20th Century Fox served YouTube with a subpoena Wednesday demanding the Google-owned viral video site disclose the identity of a user who uploaded copies of entire recent episodes of primetime series "24" and "The Simpsons". The subpoena, which first came to light on the blog Google, was granted by a judge in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after being filed ... on January 18. It is not yet known whether YouTube has complied with the request.... The "24" episodes in question actually appeared on YouTube prior to their primetime January 14 premiere on the Fox broadcast network, which spread four hourlong episodes of the hit drama over two consecutive nights. Fox became aware the episodes were on YouTube on January 8, according to the subpoena.... Thanks to BNA's Internet Law News for the pointer.