Copyright agreement reached before trial between YouTube, composer

SAN FRANCISCO, California: In a court filing this week, YouTube and Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider agreed to dismiss the San Francisco federal lawsuit accusing the video-sharing site of enabling the piracy of her works.

The trial of the copyright infringement case was set to begin this week when YouTube and Schneider agreed to end the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.

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