Grammy Winner Takes on YouTube in Trial Over Fighting Piracy (1)

YouTube LLC will head to trial next week against Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider, who broadly accused the video-sharing platform of unfairly making its copyright monitoring system available only to large movie studios and record labels.

Limiting access to YouTube’s ContentID tool, Schneider argues, leaves independent artists like herself with few options to combat piracy of their work. YouTube has countered that she has actually signed past licensing agreements that allow YouTube to host her work.

A jury trial is scheduled to begin Monday in the Northern District of California—after Schneider failed to convince a San Francisco-based federal appeals court to ...