First Google/YouTube lawsuit
March 13, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Last year Google bought YouTube for 1,65 billion dollars - and now the aftermath has hit the fan: Viacom, owner of such tv stations as Nickelodeon and MTV, is filing a lawsuit against Google for “massive intentional copyright infringement”. The statement goes on, “In fact, YouTube 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.”
This is the first major company to go after the Google/YouTube connection and its alleged copyright infringement. If it goes well (for Viacom) maybe others will try to jump the wagon too. Only time and probably judges will tell what becomes of YouTube when major tv players go hunting for it.
More Information: “Viacom sues Google and YouTube” [guardian unlimited]
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