YouTube faces legal action for showing Polish goals

On YouTube one can watch videos showing goals scored during matches of Orange Ekstraklasa, but the owner of YouTube did not buy the rights to broadcast the matches. The only entities which paid for broadcasting rights are Canal+, TVN and Internet portals Interia.pl, Gazeta.pl and Onet.pl. Canal+ broadcasts the whole matches live, while the others paid for the possibility to show the most interesting parts of the games. However, in less then 15 minutes after the final whistle in the Polish football championship match, the goals scored were available in YouTube free of charge and enjoyed 50,000 hits. "The behavior of YouTube is not elegant, so I am not surprised that the case may end up in court.," stated Krzysztof Fijołek, the chief editor of Interia. (Dziennik, p. 11) E.B.