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Mediaset wins YouTube copyright case YouTube has suffered a legal defeat in its long-running court battle with Mediaset, the Italian broadcaster owned by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. The video-sharing website has been ordered by a court in Rome to immediately remove all Mediaset content – amounting to 4,643 clips and 325 hours of unauthorised material. Mediaset had estimated it had lost 315,672 viewing days as a result of the uploads.  Mediaset claimed €500m (US$780m) from YouTube in July 2008 after Spain's Telecinco, another Berlusconi-owned network, won a similar copyright infringement case against YouTube.The judge singled out Mediaset's Italian version of Big Brother (Grande Fratello) as of particular importance, saying it is "the most important and well known reality show on Italian TV." Mediaset said on its website that the ruling is the first time "that the requests of broadcasters and publishers to have their rights and the exclusivity of their content (protected) have been recognised." YouTube could not be reached for comment at press time. A similar US$1bn copyright infringement lawsuit, launched by Viacom in 2006, is still pending against the Google-owned company. Jesse Whittock 17 Dec 2009 © C21 Media 2009 
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