The Premier League’s planned copyright suit against YouTube has gone off the boil a bit since it was filed in May 2007. But now the league has issued a gentle reminder that the video site is still allegedly mis-using its material - in the form of a second class action complaint.

In the original complaint, which was brought with 16 other plaintiffs, the league said 5,000 videos of its content had appeared since the action began. The update says 14,000 unauthorised videos have appeared on YouTube since the action first began. So that’s 9,000 new videos posted since May last year, or an average of 450 a month. But the lawsuit, brought along with music publisher Bourne Co, is still only seeking—and has not been granted—a jury trial. It still claims that YouTube “knowingly misappropriated and exploited this valuable property for their own gain without payment or licence”.

For it’s part, YouTube says it’s improved its copyright filtering technology since the case was filed, such that it could retrospectively remove many of the videos anyway. The company gave us this statement: “YouTube respects copyright holders and takes copyright issues very seriously. There is no need for legal action and all the associated costs. We prohibit users from uploading infringing material, and we cooperate with all copyright holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content as soon as we are officially notified.”

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