Steve Wozniak filed a lawsuit against YouTube and parent company Google over doctored videos that were used to promote a Bitcoin scam.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak won the latest round in a court battle against YouTube over the use of doctored videos featuring his likeness that were used in a Bitcoin scam in 2020. The latest appeals court verdict overruled a lower court judgment that absolved YouTube of any responsibility.
A San Jose appeals court ruled that YouTube cannot rely on a contentious communications statute to absolve it of liability for a fraud that exploited the Apple co-founder’s popularity using a doctored video to scam people, reported Bloomberg.
The latest verdict would allow Wozniak to continue the lawsuit against the video streaming platform and potentially pave the way for a change in the federal law that protects video streaming platforms such as YouTube from any liability that comes along with the videos posted on the platform.
