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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 --- 44 days ago http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=60908
| Media giant Viacom took its fight to the public this week seeking to outline battle lines in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube's parent, Google. Viacom filed the lawsuit in March 2007 alleging that YouTube purposefully allowed Viacom's copyrighted content to be distributed on the site. The suit was filed after negotiations between Google and Viacom over licensing content fell apart. Viacom's CEO Phillipe Dauman took jabs at his opponent at a San Francisco press conference. He expressed disappointment in Google's management of YouTube, citing numerous copyright violations still on the site months after negotiations with Viacom. Was it Deliberate? While some observers point to a problem in YouTube's architecture for weeding out and blocking protected content, others believe YouTube and Google were intentionally lax in keeping such Viacom plums as the Daily Show, South Park, and other TV shows. Google maintains it is working on better filtering software to remove copyright-protected videos. Dauman said he thinks Google purposefully allowed the piracy to continue so YouTube would grow. Google did not step in to curtail the copyright infringements until YouTube dominated the market, Dauman said. YouTube has more than 70 million views per month. In its suit Viacom asked for the release of YouTube user information to track how often its copyrights were violated. Both parties have since agreed to drop this requirement, even though a ... |
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