San Francisco - Personal video webcasting service Justin.tv has been served with legal threats by the broadcast rights owners to the English Premier League, Britain's top soccer league, CNET News.com reports. Setanta Sports has threatened to sue San Francisco-based Justin.tv, which allows anyone to broadcast a live video feed from their computer webcams, because some users have pointed their webcams at their televisions during soccer matches -- essentially offering a pirated transmission of a pay-TV signal. One such recent webcam feed of a Manchester United match drew over 167,000 hits.

Mumbai, India - Nimbus Sport, an India-based online and mobile sports broadcaster, announced that it has acquired the rights to broadcast English Premier League soccer matches via Internet and mobile platforms in 80 countries for the next three years. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal includes much of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Brazil and European nations including Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece and Belgium. "This is the first time that the Premier League has offered Internet rights separately from broadcast rights, and Nimbus Sport is delighted to be a pioneering commercial partner for the world’s leading football property," said Nimbus CEO Digvijay Singh.

London - News Corp.'s U.K.-based British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has announced plans to offer a mobile soccer video clip service for English Premier League and European Champions League matches, New Media Age reported. The clips will cost about $10 per month or $1 each, and will be promoted in News Corp.'s The Sun and News of The World in the U.K. BSkyB will also soon begin streaming its Sky Sports channels, which carry many of these games, live to mobile phones.

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s Fox Soccer Channel announced on Monday that it has acquired the exclusive U.S. mobile and Internet highlight rights for England's Barclays Premier League soccer.

New York - A music publisher and several French sports leagues have joined a class action copyright infringement suit against Google's YouTube video site.

New York - The English Premier League, along with independent music publisher Bourne Co., on Friday filed a federal class action copyright lawsuit in New York against Google's YouTube.