Google, EMI Deal Gives YouTube Users Access to Music Label's Videos, Clips
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 31--Google and major music label EMI have reached an agreement that will allow YouTube users to watch music videos from EMI artists and include clips from them in videos they create, the companies said today.
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YouTube announced deals that will provide its users with more legitimate music video and professional basketball content.
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InfoWorld - YouTube&#160;furthered its attempts to offer legitimate footage on its video-sharing Web site this week by announcing deals that will provide users with music video and professional basketball content.
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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.
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Google Inc. , racing to  head off a media industry backlash over its video Web site  YouTube, will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all  copyright holders thwart unauthorized video sharing, its chief  executive said on Wednesday.
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Google Inc.&#39;s YouTube has agreed  to a deal with major music label EMI Group Plc to give users of  the video-sharing site broad access to music videos by EMI  artists.
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EMI and Sony BMG have reached a deal to get more music and other products distributed using the Internet in the US and Canada. The cooperation deal covers new DualDisc products, ring tones
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - EMI  has joined  the other three major music companies in letting YouTube users  play with its music videos, allowing people to get clips by the  likes of David Bowie, Norah Jones and Coldplay from the  Google-owned site and edit them into their own videos.
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More than 50,000 music artists will now get paid when their tracks are used as backing music for clips on YouTube, in a new deal between the music industry and the website.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SAN FRANCISCO - Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc., marking another significant step in the entertainment industry's migration to the Internet.
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(InfoWorld) - ViacomÂ has sued Google, alleging copyright infringement from video-sharing site YouTube and seeking $1 billion in damages. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follows a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) requestÂ Viacom sent to Google last monthÂ related to the unauthorized posting of Viacom videos to YouTube. At the time,Â Viacom demanded that GoogleÂ remove more than 100,000 of its clipsÂ from YouTube, which Google acquired last year for $1.65 billion. Google said it would comply with the request. In escalating its battle with YouTube with this lawsuit, Viacom reiterates that YouTube has allowed and benefitted from "massive intentional" copyright violations of Viacom videos. In addition to $1 billion inÂ damages, Viacom is asking the court for an injunction barring Google and YouTube from continuing the alleged infringement, Viacom said Tuesday in a statement. Google stands ready to fight the allegations and is confident that "YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders," a Google spokesman said via e-mail. "We will certainly not let this suit become a distraction to the continuing growth and strong performance of YouTube and its ability to attract more users, more traffic, and build a stronger community," he wrote. Almost 160,000 Viacom video clips have been uploaded to YouTube without permission and have been viewed over 1.5 billion times, Viacom alleges. "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," Viacom charged in the statement. Google and YouTube illegally profit from the traffic that the unauthorized videos draw to their sites by selling advertising, according to Viacom, which added that YouTube has been lax in its attempts to stop its users from uploading copyrighted videos without permission. Viacom decided to sue Google after negotiations and other measures failed to halt the alleged copyright infringement in YouTube, Viacom said. Viacom is a media conglomerate whose properties include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures. The case is unlikely to result in a total shutdown of YouTube because legitimate uses of the site exist beyond the potentially illegal activities Viacom is objecting to, said Sheldon Klein, an attorney specializing in intellectual-property matters and a partner at Arent Fox LLP in Washington, D.C. However, Google may find itself liable to the infringement claims if Viacom proves that Google and YouTube didn't do all that was possible to prevent users from uploading copyrighted videos without permission, especially after being served with the DMCA notice last month, Klein said. Specifically, if YouTube and Google haven't implemented available technology that would allow them to do a better job of filtering out infringing videos, Viacom could have a legitimate argument in saying they're not trying hard enough, he said. A check of YouTube at noon Eastern time showed multiple instances of Viacom-owned videos, including clips from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and from Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants." One of the "SpongeBob" clips found, for example, has been on YouTube since Feb. 5 of this year, while one of "The Daily Show" clips was uploaded in October of last year. Google executives have said the company is developing technology to address the issue of infringing downloads on YouTube and have promised to deliver it in the near future. Google didn't immediately provide an explanation of what, if any, filtering and detection technology exists in YouTube today. In the meantime, competitorsÂ such asÂ News Corp.'s MySpace, which also lets users upload videos to its site, have licensed third-party systems for detecting infringing videos. There are a number of companies that make this type of software, including Audible Magic, the one chosen by MySpace.
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TechWeb - IBM has reached a deal with Google Inc. to bring the consumer Internet into the office by piping YouTube and thousands of other Web programs into IBM software used by millions of office workers.
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Music videos from artists like   Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sean Paul will be legally   available for the first time on YouTube, a popular online video   sharing site, after signing its first commercial partnership   with Warner Music Group WMG.N.
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Google says it will soon begin testing a long-awaited system that can block unauthorized copyrighted clips from being uploaded to YouTube.
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YouTube said Thursday that it had agreed with the MCPS-PRS Alliance, the UK organization that distributes royalties to the record industry, on a system to compensate artists for music using on the UK version of the site.
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The British Broadcasting Corp. said Friday that it has signed a deal with Google Inc.'s YouTube that will allow the popular Web site to show excerpts of the broadcaster's news and entertainment programs.
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Google Inc.'s  YouTube  has agreed to a breakthrough deal with major music label EMI  Group Plc  to give users of YouTube's video sharing site  broad access to music videos by EMI artists.