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You may recall that back before it sued YouTube, Viacom sent the company 100,000 takedown notices , many of which turned out not to violate Viacom's copyrights. At first, Viacom tried to brush it off as totally innocent collateral damage, but after the EFF filed a lawsuit pointing out that false positives violate the part of the DMCA where each takedown must swear that the sender is the legitimate...
In Part I of this two-part series addressing the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit, I detailed why I think there's a reasonable likelihood that Google will be found liable for direct, contributory, and vicarious copyright infringement.
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...
Not content with going fishing for potential copyright violations on YouTube, Viacom are also claiming copyright for videos they don’t own ( via ). Juxtaposer is an original animation made by Joanna Davidovich for her senior project. She copyrighted the film in 2006 and says that she "only entered into distribution agreements that were nonexclusive." And now she’s received a notification from YouTube...
My belief that Google should be held liable for copyright infringement in Viacom's $1bn YouTube lawsuit is no secret . With the lawsuit making headlines recently, I figured it was an appropriate time to lay out in some detail why I feel the way I do in a two-part series.
In an update to Viacom's YouTube discovery request, and subsequent whirlwind of publicity regarding the private information of the YouTube viewer's usernames and IP addressses, Viacom and other parties to the copyright infringement lawsuit, have formally agreed to allow Google...
What is Viacom really after in its $1 billion lawsuit against Google over YouTube? Despite a lengthy invite list, Viacom PR was only to drum up "a small press gathering" to listen to CEO Philippe... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Despite the sometimes-notion that content is a commodity, Viacom Chief Phillippe Dauman said that there's never been a better time to be in the business of creating shows, films or casual games thanks to the Internet.
Viacom chief says Google has an inability to bend in negotiations with Hollywood and suggested that he believes it was always Google's strategy to ignore piracy on YouTube so the site could "dominate the space."
A fortnight ago I blogged about the privacy implications of the US Court order which forces Google to reveal You Tube user data to Viacom. Last week Sarah Teather MP asked a Parliamentary Question about it: here is Hansard's record...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Source: Lexology , July 22, 2008. Court order requires Google to hand over user data to Viacom Addleshaw Goddard LLP "Litigation between Google and Viacom started in March 2007 when Viacom alleged that it had identified about 160,000 clips of its programmes on YouTube which had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times."
Last week CNN Money reported on the latest development in the $1 billion lawsuit that media giant Viacom has filed against Google noting that: Viacom has agreed to let Google strip identifying information from YouTube viewers’ data before complying with a judge’s order to hand over the records as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit. This is [...]
I am killing the Internet. Believe me, I was surprised to find this out. I'm the guy who rolls his eyes at Digg, participates in Mozilla Firefox Download Day, enjoys the occasional LOLcat and may even get Rick Rolled on a nerd-infested message board about users' undying love of IG-88. In short, the Internet is the source of a great deal of my knowledge, hobbies and personal entertainment. I am invested...
