Viacom Sues YouTube Over Copyrights
March 13th, 2007
This post is brought to you by: E Internet Index Web DirectoryThe MTV owner Viacom Inc. sued the video-sharing site YouTube.com and its corporate parent, Google, seeking more than $1 billion in damages on claims of widespread copyright infringement.
Viacom claims that YouTube.com has displayed more than 160,000 unauthorized video clips from its various cable networks, which also include VH1 and Comedy Central.
Viacom also slammed YouTube’s copyright policy: “YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others’ creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google. 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. In fact, YouTube’s strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement on its site, thus generating significant traffic and revenues for itself while shifting the entire burden – and high cost – of monitoring YouTube onto the victims of its infringement.”
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