Benjamin Legeri, op Youtube bekend onder de nickname BennyBaby, heeft Google aangeklaagd. De man wil een deel ontvangen van de omzet die zijn YouTube-filmpjes (momenteel zo’n 117) genereren.
Omdat Google de man niet heeft toegelaten aan het partnerprogramma van YouTube wil hij volgens Arstechnica nu een schadevergoeding van 1 miljoen dollar.
“Unfortunately, Legeri isn’t likely to see much of the revenue he’s suing for.”
“YouTube launched its Partner Program just over a year ago as an incentive for top publishers, but even with his arguably inflated traffic numbers mentioned in the suit, Legeri’s account doesn’t appear to hold a candle to the numbers enjoyed by most of YouTube’s current Partners. While a handful of Partners have only a couple hundred, or, in rare cases, only double-digit subscribers, most Partners are at least in the thousands, with some approaching half a million subscribers.
Further, the criteria to join YouTube’s Partner Program is drawn more in sand than concrete. There isn’t some magical or hard number of views, videos, or subscribers that automatically graduates a YouTube publisher into the program.”
