Prince is launching legal action against YouTube which is owned by Google Inc.
The ‘Purple Rain’ singer is suing for copyright infringement, and unauthorized use of clips of his performances and music videos.
A statement released on the singers behalf,reads :
“Prince believes that as an artist, the music rights must remain with the artist and copyrights should be protected across the board.”
“YouTube are clearly able to filter porn and paedophile material but appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business success.”
But on the other hand YouTube insists that it wants to work with the Pop Star and monitor which music content that appears on the site.