Topic Viacom sues YouTube

Donkey · March 13th, 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17592285/

Didn't see this one coming, riiiiiight....

bigcanada813 · March 14th, 2007

oh yeah, big surprise there.

-HAL- · March 15th, 2007

Quote:

Google confident digital liability law protects it
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. is confident its popular video-sharing site YouTube and other Web services Google offers have strong legal protections under current copyright law, company attorneys said on Tuesday.

Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. ended six months of thinly veiled threats of legal action against YouTube earlier on Tuesday with a $1 billion lawsuit that accuses Google and YouTube of "massive intentional copyright infringement."

But Google and YouTube lawyers said their actions are squarely within the protections offered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 and they were prepared to defend the company aggressively.

http://www.reuters.com/article/techn...16411620070314

I'm not very surprised that Google had a "backup" plan either..
This will be fun..

Donkey · March 16th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by -HAL-

http://www.reuters.com/article/techn...16411620070314

I'm not very surprised that Google had a "backup" plan either..
This will be fun..

Yeah plus Google has a bit of spending cash to throw around so it shall indeed be interesting....

Has the possibility to change a lot though...

Ding Ding Ding

it's on

bigcanada813 · March 17th, 2007

taking all bets, taking all bets for Google vs. Viacom.

this is gonna be fun watching this little legal action play out.

Donkey · March 18th, 2007

As more unfolds:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17653832/site/newsweek/

Like I said before this could change a lot for the future....

I see this become quite the discussion, debate, trial for some time to come, sit back and enjoy the show

-edit

That article on the last page makes a statement about lawyers, which in turn reminds me of a great bumper sticker: "Defend America, Disbar a lawyer"

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