Thank you Sir. May I have another?

These copyright infringement suits that are nipping at Youtube's feet keep popping up and this time Apple may get dragged into the fight. As many of you may know, Apple's iPhone will carry YouTube videos, which funny enough were selected by YouTube and made available for iPhone users to view on their devices.

How well thought out was the selection of videos that were made available to the iPhone? Turns out that a small number of the 10,000 videos made available were illegally uploaded by someone other than the copyright holder and now threatens to put Apple in the same legal hot water as YouTube. Examples include a clip of Thierry Henry, a French football player, clips from Adult Swim, the comedy channel operated by Turner Broadcasting and clips of OJ Simpson's getaway Bronco chase.

While Apple probably never thought it would be trafficking in bootlegged content with the likes of YouTube, it now has to worry that the content being displayed on it's devices don't infringe on other's copyright.

So who is liable? What has the Internet done to issues in copyright? And more importantly who is going to have to pay out the money to settle this infringements?

I'm highly skeptical that Apple will be found liable but its an embarrassing mess that they are going to have to deal with in the future.