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[ NNSquad ] Re: Appeals court revives billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube by Viacom
On 4/5/2012 10:55 AM, Lauren Weinstein wrote: > > Appeals court revives billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube by Viacom > > http://j.mp/Hpm9iS (New York Times) > > "A U.S. appeals court has revived lawsuits by Viacom Inc, the English > Premier League, and various film studios and television networks > accusing Google Inc of allowing copyrighted videos on its YouTube > service without permission." > > One irony here is that Viacom was apparently actively posting its own > copyrighted videos on YouTube under fake identities -- to try garner > "viral" publicity for those videos -- during the period in question. Another irony -- Paramount just licensed 500 movies to Google: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/paramount-google-license-deal-307472 Sue your customers and distribution partners -- I guess that is how one negotiates prices. Larry _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad