Viacom sues Google for $1bn
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The party's over Viacom's patience with Google has finally run out, and the entertainment giant has filed a $1bn copyright infringement suit against Google.â¦
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Viacom, the parent company of MTV, is suing Google for $1 Billion in damages brought about via alleged copyright violations as Viacom claims that its material was illegally uploaded and distrubted via Google &#038; YouTube. Viacom made a statement today saying that YouTube has &#8220;built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to [...]
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Viacom Inc.  on Friday  demanded that Google Inc.'s  online video service  YouTube remove more than 100,000 video clips after they failed  to reach a distribution agreement.
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Google is reported to be in talks to buy popular video-sharing website YouTube for $1.6bn.
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Mickey Mouse rollout? YouTube says it's now really close to trialling the video fingerprinting technology it has reckons will put an end to its status as a copyright renegade, which won it a $1bn lawsuit from Viacom.â¦
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Can homegrown software help Google and YouTube defuse a $1 billion lawsuit from Viacom? That&#39;s the question underlying the announcement that Google is about to test a new system to ferret out unauthorized film and video clips on YouTube.
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US entertainment giant Viacom on Tuesday launched a billion-dollar lawsuit against Google and its affiliate YouTube, accusing the video-sharing website of &quot;massive&quot; copyright infringement.
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By Jon Swartz  SAN FRANCISCO -- Days after clashing with Google's YouTube in a public spat over copyright protection, Viacom has found a new partner to air its content online.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. sold advertising to two men who allegedly marketed an application designed to find and download pirated movies online, a business relationship that has angered big movie and TV studios, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The extent of Google's involvement with this allegedly rogue operation has been detailed in sworn depositions taken as part of an ongoing civil lawsuit major Hollywood studios filed against these two men in October 2005. The defendants said under oath that Google assigned them account representatives who assisted them with their Google ad campaigns, including offering them credit and suggesting they use keywords like "bootleg movie download" and "pirated" to promote their Web sites, the Journal reported. A Google employee "largely" backed up the statements from defendants Brandon Drury and Luke Sample, both residents of Missouri, the Journal reported, quoting anonymous sources familiar with the case, in which some depositions have been sealed. EasyDownloadCenter.com and TheDownloadPlace.com generated US$1.1 million in revenue between 2003 and 2005, and Google received $809,000 for advertising, the Journal reported. Upon learning that the defendants used Google to market their software, the plaintiffs, which include News Corp., Viacom International Inc., Sony Corp., NBC Universal, Time Warner Inc. and The Walt Disney Co., complained to the search engine company, according to the Journal. Google responded by holding a conference call with the media companies on Friday in which it pledged to remove certain ads the companies object to, create a list of approved advertisers and stop selling keywords meant to drive traffic to pirated material, the Journal reported. Google also committed to monitor keywords more closely and to train its ad sales team on avoiding selling those types of ads. The flap comes at a time when Google is trying to negotiate with large media companies over the use of their material on YouTube's video uploading and sharing site, which Google acquired last year for $1.65 billion. Those negotiations are proving tough, as evidenced by fiascoes like this month's decision by Viacom to demand that Google remove over 100,000 of its video clips from YouTube. Viacom, whose properties include MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures, gave up afterÂ months of negotiations, saying Google and YouTube proved "unwilling to come to a fair market agreement." EasyDownloadCenter.com and TheDownloadPlace.com, which are no longer operational, didn't host any movies. Instead, they sold an application for $29.95 designed to allegedly help users search for and download pirated movies from P-to-P (peer-to-peer) file sharing networks. The defendants dispute the allegations that they induced and facilitated piracy and are thus guilty of copyright infringement and unfair competition. Asked to comment about the Journal's report, a Google spokesman said via e-mail that Google forbids advertisers from using its ad platform to promote the sale of copyright infringing materials. "We are continually improving our systems to screen out ads that violate these policies," he wrote. Â
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A lawsuit filed by entertainment giant Viacom Inc. , seeking more than $1 billion in damages against video-sharing website YouTube and its parent company Google Inc., raises the volume on one of the hottest debates in the technology business: Can Internet sites post snippets of content produced by others without paying them?
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A California-based pornographer said on Monday it has sued Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , alleging that its leading Internet search engines are
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A French film company filed a lawsuit against Google in the Paris Commercial Court, charging the search giant with copyright infringement.
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Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. sued  Google Inc. and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for  more than $1 billion on Tuesday in the biggest challenge yet to  the Web search leader&#39;s strategy to dominate the online video  market.
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A California-based pornographer said on Monday it has sued Google Inc. , alleging that its leading Internet search engines are illegally allowing people to view hijacked versions of its nude photos and to access its Web site with stolen passwords.
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Viacom is suing online video provider YouTube and its parent company, Google, for more than $1 billion, saying the companies are infringing on Viacom's copyrights because almost 160,000 unauthorized video clips are available for viewing on YouTube.
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Media conglomerate Viacom Inc.   said on Tuesday that it was suing Google Inc.   and its Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1  billion over unauthorized use of its programming online.
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In an attempt to challenge Google's YouTube, Viacom announces plans to make its videos available on thousands of sites.