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MTV Vs Google

03/14/07
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(Idolator.com) This morning, [MTV's parent company] Viacom filed a federal copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube and Google, alleging that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom's programming were available on the video-sharing site, and that they'd been watched more than 1.5 billion times. Now, Viacom is looking to get paid--to the tune of more than a billion dollars:

"YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to others' creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google. 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. [Maybe YouTube should charge bands to air their videos? Is this MTV's new web strategy? We don't know but see full story for more on this story] - Click here for the Full Story

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