Viacom files copyright infringement complaint against Youtube and Google |
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Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:32
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LONDON (AFX) - Viacom Inc. announced that it has sued YouTube and its parent Google Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for massive intentional copyright infringement of its entertainment properties.The suit seeks more than 1 bln usd in damages, as well as an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. Viacom contends that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom's programming have been available on YouTube and that these clips had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.'YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization ... Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws,' Viacom said in a statement.newsdesk@afxnews.comicCOPYRIGHTCopyright AFX News Limited 2007. All rights reserved.The copying, republication or redistribution of AFX News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AFX News.AFX News and AFX Financial News Logo are registered trademarks of AFX News Limited
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