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Viacom Sues Google for $1 Billion Over YouTube Videos

posted March 13, 2007 - 5:03pm
Viacom Sues Google for $1 Billion Over YouTube Videos

The company that owns Comedy Central, MTV, and other TV networks is suing Google for one billion dollars, citing copyright infringement by its YouTube division.

Viacom says that YouTube committed "massive intentional copyright infringement" in posting videos from Viacom shows.

As I reported in a recent xombyte, Viacom a few weeks ago had asked YouTube to remove from its Web site 100,000 video clips of Viacom content.


Website: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070313/tc_nm/viacom_y...
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How to count royalties on 100,000 videos?

Idlewild - Tue, 2007-13-3 7:53 pm
Yeah, it's equal to a lot of adwords, and a lot of videos. I wonder if they had some poor intern sitting at a computer for weeks straight, trying to find every Viacom video on YouTube ...

Wow!

thatguy - Tue, 2007-13-3 6:43 pm
$1 billion is alot of Adwords revenue!

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