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An account has found that Viacom, who used to be the parent company of Harmonix, owes the developer of the Rock Band music franchise no less than 383 million dollars (293.2 million Euro).The expert was appointed jointly by the investors in the two companies as they seek to solve issues linked to their separation earl... |
28 December 2011
07:34 GMT |
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YouTube and Viacom are headed back to the courts. Google and the media company have been held up in a legal battle over copyright infringement on YouTube, for many years now.Last year, Google won a rather clear victory with the court siding with YouTube and absolving it of any responsibility over what its users uploa... |
18 October 2011
07:46 GMT |
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Cablevision and Viacom have reached an agreement in relation to Cablevision's TV streaming application for iOS, Optimum.Released earlier this year, the Optimum app was initially available to iPad users only.As Cablevision subscribers, tablet owners could watch streaming live TV anywhere in their home, as well as... |
11 August 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Earlier we found out that Viacom, the parent company of MTV Games, has decided to sell video games developer Harmonix, who is in charge of both Rock Band and Dance Central development, to an investment firm called Columbus Nova, and now the price for the transaction has been revealed to just be 49.99 dollars.A report... |
7 January 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Media firm Viacom has confirmed that it has sold Harmonix, the developer behind the very successful Rock Band franchise and the Kinect-powered Dance Central, to Columbus Nova, a strategic investment firm, with neither part saying how much was paid for the music simulation developer.
Viacom bought Harmonix back in ... |
27 December 2010
04:34 GMT |
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The leader of publisher Electronic Arts has suggested that the days of the music genre of video games are not over, despite the fact that the leading brands in the space have seen falling sales in the last few years, with motion tracking based dance seen as the feature that could revive them.
Speaking to Kotaku in... |
2 December 2010
06:25 GMT |
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The media conglomerate Viacom has announced that it plans to sell Harmonix, the company which has created the original Guitar Hero, all the main Rock Band installment and the recent Dance Central, classifying it as a “discontinued operation.”Viacom acquired Harmonix through its MTV subsidiary back in 2006... |
12 November 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Viacom lost its lawsuit against YouTube, as the judge presiding the case found that the video site was well within the confines of the DMCA “safe harbor” protection. US District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan found most of YouTube’s arguments compelling and rejected all of Viacom’s, making f... |
24 June 2010
03:59 GMT |
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The three-year-old legal battle between media giants Google-owned YouTube and Viacom is heating up, as the lawsuit is about to get underway after all the preliminary hearings have been completed. In the meantime, a number of court documents from all parties involved have been released, the first time we've been ... |
19 March 2010
05:00 GMT |
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One of the biggest lawsuits concerning Google at the moment is starting to move forward after almost three years. The Viacom versus YouTube suit has been in the preparation phase, but is now set to get into the ruling process as both sides have made requests for a summary judgment by the court. This is the first ste... |
8 January 2010
07:20 GMT |
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It doesn't spring to mind very often now that YouTube is making friends with all the big content creators, but the site is still involved in a now three-year-old lawsuit with Viacom over copyrighted material popping up on the video sharing site. The billion-dollar lawsuit was filed in early 2007 and still hasn&... |
5 January 2010
08:59 GMT |
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The initial narrative that accompanied the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band, the newest collaboration between Harmonix and MTV Games, has been of a revolutionary videogame that will attract non-gamers to the music genre titles and which will set the trend for future releases that are focused more on specifi... |
9 November 2009
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It has been announced that cable-television network Nickelodeon is now the owner of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. This basically means that it holds the rights to creating television content, full-length movies and video games based on the characters. The official statement made by the network has not m... |
23 October 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Google's acquisition of YouTube is one of the company's best-known transactions and the most controversial. The deal made waves at the moment for the price tag it carried, which many believed to be significantly over-inflated, and later on for all of the copyright infringement troubles it carried. To this d... |
6 October 2009
10:10 GMT |
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The share value of publisher THQ has grown by 13% in trading, as more rumors appeared that the company was being considered to be a ripe target for a take-over by at least two media giants. The Wall Street Journal, which knows a thing or to when it comes to business and acquisitions, was reporting that both Time Warn... |
24 September 2009
14:41 GMT |
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The Beatles Rock Band has been out since September 9 and Harmonix, MTV Games and Viacom must by now have a certain knowledge of how the music-simulation title is performing, especially against its biggest rival, Guitar Hero 5 from Activision. The first glimpses of the situation were offered by the Chief Executive Off... |
18 September 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Viacom is reporting that the first quarter of the financial year and the overall revenue for the Media Networks division, the parent of MTV Games and Harmonix, has fallen to 1.97 billion, which represents an 8% reduction over the same period of last year.The company clearly pointed the finger to limited sales of Rock... |
30 July 2009
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The music game genre is growing by leaps and bounds these days, as more and more customers are attracted by titles such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band for the great experience they offer and the fact that they can really bring people together in order to play tracks from their favorite bands.This popularity has sparked... |
16 February 2009
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The music game genre is seeing a massive popularity increase this time of the year, as more and more customers are attracted to the entertainment that these titles provide. The fact that people can play with their friends or family is also a major feature that will certainly generate big sales for releases such as Ro... |
12 December 2008
03:11 GMT |
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When MTV Games bought Harmonix way back in 2006, few people paid attention to a clause which awarded significant bonuses to developers based on sales of the Rock Band series. It appears that even Viacom did not believe it had to set aside money to pay those bonuses, as it only gathered some 208 million dollars this M... |
13 November 2008
12:51 GMT |
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MTV ratings are plummeting as more teenagers listen to music on the go or online. Paramount branded movies are not doing great at the box office. But MTV Games and Harmonix are going strong and making money for all the involved parties.Viacom's profit went down by 37% this year. But the weirdly named “anci... |
7 November 2008
03:33 GMT |
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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
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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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