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Media companies have grown tired of forcing YouTube into pulling copyrighted videos off the website. Some may wonder why, as copyright infringements can bring, in time, millions of dollars worth of damages. According to the New York Times, CBS, Universal Music, Lionsgate Entertainment and Electronic Arts, along with ... |
18 August 2008
06:57 GMT |
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While the lawsuit Viacom filed against YouTube is still pending, Google's affiliate has yet another difficult matter to settle on its hands. Mediaset, an Italian broadcasting company, has just announced that it is suing YouTube and Google, asking for €500 million, which means approximately $700 million, in damag... |
31 July 2008
05:22 GMT |
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It seems like YouTube users have nothing to fear anymore. Their user ID, IP address and visitor ID are no longer in danger of being handed over to Viacom, as the company, that sued Google's YouTube last year, asking for $1 billion indemnification regarding copyrights, has backed off its request. If this came to ... |
15 July 2008
06:55 GMT |
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As it is already common knowledge, back in April, YouTube launched a couple of feature updates that were provided, until now, only to a small group of users, elected randomly. The features are now available for everyone. The inbox system, the list of contacts and the way the results of the queries are displayed are a... |
12 July 2008
05:46 GMT |
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An online petition was launched a few days ago by some YouTube users who call themselves generically "users of the web." What initiated it is their concern regarding the judges' decision to force YouTube to hand over all of its users' private data to Viacom, a major American company that has accused it of c... |
8 July 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Entertainment industry giant Viacom initiated a lawsuit against YouTube in March 2007, asking for damages in excess of $1 billion. Louis Lee Stanton, a Southern District of New York judge, has recently ordered YouTube to hand over to Viacom all information regarding uploaded files, viewing habits, user names and IP a... |
4 July 2008
09:59 GMT |
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Google's subsidiary YouTube and Viacom are currently involved in a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit, which was initiated by Viacom in February 2007. According to Viacom, YouTube is to be held responsible for the high number of video materials that don't respect copyright rules. 160,000 of these vid... |
27 May 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Viacom, the company that controls both Nickelodeon and MTV, announced that operating profits have gone up by 33 percent to around $270 million in the first quarter of the year. A lot of this growth is due to the success that Rock Band, created by Harmonix, has enjoyed. The Media Networks division, which is responsibl... |
5 May 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Although it was already a well known fact that Google's YouTube is one of the most popular services on the net and the clear leader of the online video sharing industry, a new report published by comScore comes to support this statement: Google's video websites gained the leader chair in US, Canada, UK, Fra... |
10 April 2008
09:14 GMT |
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Google might breathe easily, as US District Court Judge Louis Stanton denied the media conglomerate's claim for punitive damages in the case, the Silicon Alley Insider reports. Interestingly enough, the Mountain View-based company did not object to the amendment, nor did it attempt any means to avoid it being su... |
11 March 2008
10:30 GMT |
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The 1 billion dollar suit against Google is a good enough reason to be worried about and make sure that you haven't overlooked anything. It's not going to be a trial that will have the judge emotional and take decisions with his heart, it's not going to have a closing plead that will be waited for with... |
21 January 2008
07:06 GMT |
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The anti-YouTube coalition strengthens and flexes its muscles to show off the new Viacom additions: Comedy Central, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon and Atom Films, to name a few sources of videos that the Network has started sharing with an array of video-sharing websites that enlist Dailymotion, Veoh (which already has Hu... |
9 January 2008
09:12 GMT |
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The MTV videos will be soon available on the web on several online video services, after the parent company Viacom has signed deals with five new websites. Dailymotion, GoFish, iMee, MeeVee and Veoh Network are the five lucky services that have the chance to boost their number of visitors using the content provided b... |
8 January 2008
09:39 GMT |
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On December 19th, Microsoft and Viacom announced a broad-based strategic alliance designed as nothing more than a slap in Google's face. The two companies partnered on a range of aspects, including the serving of advertising, but also on content distribution, as well as promotions focused on gaming materials and... |
20 December 2007
05:21 GMT |
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After Viacom slapped Google with a lawsuit for $1 billion for the copyright infringing materials on YouTube, it has now added insult to injury and jumped into bed with Microsoft. The two companies have gotten quite cozy on a strategic alliance covering multiple aspects, but essentially focused on an advertising partn... |
19 December 2007
10:18 GMT |
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The rivalry between the media giant Viacom and the other giant Google started since MTV's owner sued the Mountain View company for copyright infringement, requiring $1 billion in damages. Since then, Google has struggled to improve the copyright filters to reduce the number of the lawsuits but it managed to rele... |
19 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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A group of several famous companies including Disney, CBS, Viacom, MySpace and Microsoft announced their support for the User Generated Content Principles which are supposed to protect the users' content in the virtual world. In a world where anybody can claim your content is actually owned by them, these princi... |
19 October 2007
05:41 GMT |
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The short story so far: Chris Knight produced three TV commercials which were offered to the local television. The first one, named "Christopher Knight for School Board TV Commercial #1" was taken by Viacom and included into its VH1 show, Web Junk 2.0. Please note that this video was used without the approval of the ... |
31 August 2007
13:51 GMT |
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The music and movie industry have kept themselves aside from watching intensely the gaming business movement for years and now one of them is realizing they should have acted sooner. MTV has announced a 500 million dollar investment in this sector hoping to catch up with the big boys in the league."As we take our bra... |
17 August 2007
06:24 GMT |
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The lawsuit between Google and Viacom is now turning into a Comedy Central episode as the Mountain View company asked for testimony two of the famous comedians who appeared in Viacom's show: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. The Register informs that YouTube created a list with 32 persons which includes the two c... |
15 August 2007
09:42 GMT |
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Did you count them? How many copyright infringement cases are involving Google and the popular online video sharing platform? The correct answer is: many. A huge number, to be more specific. Since it was acquired by the Mountain View company in October 2005 for $1.65 billion, YouTube was assaulted by legal problems, ... |
27 July 2007
10:00 GMT |
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If you thought the battle between Google and Viacom is ended, you were wrong because the two companies are attacking one another with every new occasion. If you didn't know it, let me present the story so far: Viacom, which is the owner of several famous names such as MTV and Comedy Central, demanded YouTube to ... |
13 July 2007
16:36 GMT |
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YouTube is scared. This is probably a better title than the one above because it describes the numerous copyright alerts displayed by the online video sharing service better. YouTube was often affected by an impressive number of copyright lawsuits that sent the parent company Google to the judge periodically. The tit... |
4 June 2007
15:11 GMT |
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Joost, the free Internet TV currently in beta, received an impressive $45 million investment to become even more powerful and crush the rival YouTube. According to ITnews, Joost attracted no more than five famous names such as CBS, Global Expansion Index Ventures, Li Ka Shing Foundation, Sequoia Capital and one of th... |
11 May 2007
10:02 GMT |
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The story so far: Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central, sent a subpoena to the search giant, demanding to remove more than 100.000 clips from YouTube. The main reason? Viacom considered that Google receives praises and money for the content provided by other publishers. Of course Google agreed and started the ... |
1 May 2007
04:29 GMT |
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Viacom is probably one of the most popular companies nowadays, although it wasn't too promoted in the last year. Although it owns several worldwide TV channels such as MTV, VH1 or Comedy Central, the media conglomerate wasn't too familiar with the online area. However, the last months were quite amazing for... |
11 April 2007
05:07 GMT |
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The battle between Google and Viacom was at least interesting as it managed to remain in the spotlights due to hot information provided by both sides. If you didn't know, Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central, demanded YouTube to remove 100.000 clips because the company considered Google receives praises a... |
2 April 2007
09:19 GMT |
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Google versus Viacom is one of the most well know disputes on the Internet because the owner of MTV and Comedy Central filed a complaint against the search giant requiring $1.6 billion in damages. As you surely know, Viacom ordered YouTube to remove almost 100.000 clips from the page because it considered Google rece... |
30 March 2007
04:12 GMT |
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GameTrailers, a division of Viacom's MTV Networks, announced the launch of its new mobile video channel. As part of the mobile debut, GameTrailers will unveil "Go Gaming," a new original series dedicated entirely to the coverage of mobile games. GameTrailer gaming content will be distributed to Amp'd Mobil... |
29 March 2007
10:22 GMT |
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RealNetworks and COMEDY CENTRAL Mobile, a division of Viacom's MTV Networks, recenrly announced the U.S. and European launch of "South Park 10: The Game." Developed by Real's award-winning mobile game studio in close collaboration with South Park Studios and COMEDY CENTRAL, the game is published under the R... |
28 March 2007
10:02 GMT |
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Let met tell you the short story so far and then I'll present you the opinion of Viacom concerning the lawsuit against YouTube. Some time ago, Viacom demanded YouTube to remove almost 100.000 clips from the page because the company receives praises and money for the content offered by other publishers. Viacom, t... |
27 March 2007
04:18 GMT |
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Oh my God, you'll say, the story continues! Of course the story continues because YouTube and Viacom are continuously challenging one another using different methods. As you surely know, Viacom became one of the YouTube enemies after they ordered the video service to remove almost 100.000 clips from the page. Ju... |
23 March 2007
07:54 GMT |
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Nowadays, one of the most known Google enemies is surely Viacom, the company that sued YouTube for publishing videos without authorization. If you don't know the story, let me present it to you: Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central, demanded YouTube to remove almost 100.000 clips from the page because the... |
21 March 2007
03:49 GMT |
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If you didn't know it, let me present the short story so far: YouTube the online video sharing service acquired by Google in October 2006 for $1.6 billion, had to delete almost 100.000 clips from the page because Viacom requested the removal. The owner of MTV and Comedy Central demanded the video service to remo... |
19 March 2007
06:07 GMT |
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Viacom, the owner of Comedy Central and MTV, announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the online video service YouTube for copyright infringement. The company sustained YouTube used its content without authorization and is now requiring $1 billion in damages. Viacom filed the lawsuit at the U.S. District Court... |
13 March 2007
10:19 GMT |
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It's well known that MTV owns the teenagers offline media market and it is obvious as long as the television provides instant access to latest songs and videos for free. In the latest period, the owner of MTV, Viacom, was involved in a worldwide dispute with Google's YouTube, an online video-sharing service... |
8 March 2007
09:46 GMT |
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Remember the Viacom vs. YouTube battle when the first company demanded the video service to remove an impressive number of videos from its page? If not, let me present you the story so far: Viacom, the owner of well-known television programs such as MTV or Comedy Central demanded YouTube to remove almost 100.000 clip... |
7 March 2007
05:45 GMT |
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