Viacom Sues Google, YouTube for 1 Billion Dollars
Viacom announced that it has filed a $1 billion federal copyright infringement lawsuit against video-sharing site YouTube and Google.
Viacom said that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programming -- the company's holdings include Paramount Pictures, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon -- have been viewed more than 1.5 billion times on YouTube.
"Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws," Viacom said in a statement.
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Viacom said that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programming -- the company's holdings include Paramount Pictures, MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon -- have been viewed more than 1.5 billion times on YouTube.
"Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws," Viacom said in a statement.
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Labels: copyrights, Google, lawsuits, social network, User Generated Content, Viacom, YouTube
posted by Nycwave at 12:56 PM
2 Comments:
There is an interesting post on the Compete.com showing the changes in traffic patterns to YouTube and Viacom since the conflict between the two began. Interestingly, there don't appear to be big changes since the Viacom content was pulled from YouTube. I wonder if this will effect the amount YouTube/Google may have to pay. Check out the post... http://blog.compete.com/2007/03/14/youtube-viacom-suit/
There is an interesting post on the Compete.com showing the changes in traffic patterns to YouTube and Viacom since the conflict between the two began. Interestingly, there don't appear to be big changes since the Viacom content was pulled from YouTube. I wonder if this will effect the amount YouTube/Google may have to pay. Check out the post... http://blog.compete.com/2007/03/14/youtube-viacom-suit/
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