Chad Hurley, one of the co-founders of YouTube, will pay the celebrity couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West $440,000 for secretly recording and then posting their 2013 marriage proposal at AT&T Park, according to TMZ.
The couple will drop their lawsuit once Hurley pays the settlement, according to reports.
There is so much to wonder about in this story:
Seeing Hurley s name in a headline about legality and video took me back to 2005 when YouTube launched, gaining popularity as users uploaded video, including copyrighted content from TV shows. In 2006, Hurley and his co founders sold YouTube to Google for $1.6 billion.
According to reports, Hurley manipulated his way into the affair and signed a confidentiality agreement. After filming the event, he posted it on MixBit, his video app. In their lawsuit, West and Kardashian claim that Hurley was desperate for a second act after two of his post-YouTube businesses flopped.
The couple took a photo of Hurley holding the confidentiality agreement.
Hurley posted the video on his site and tweeted, So this happened last night. Congrats Kim & Kanye!
Thanks to TMZ, we can still see the proposal, which involved fire and an orchestra. The couple said in their suit that the footage of the event was intended for MC Cable Television, which produces and broadcasts Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Hurley tweeted Thursday:
Breaking! 
I m matching the Kimye settlement with an additional $440k to my foundation that will reward selfless individuals. Stay tuned!
Photo: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in 2012, pre-happily married. (Associated Press archives)
