The Blog for Video 2.0
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Viacom sues Google/YouTube
Viacom has sued YouTube for $1 Billion, that's Billion with a "B", claiming copyright infringement. It seems most of the Web 2.0 fans are claming this is a simple case of "new companies innovate, old tired companies litigate".
This is not the view of this blog or http://www.hungryflix.com.
Much of YouTube's value does indeed come from the copyrighted works of others. If all copyrighted material was removed from YouTube how many visitors and page views would the site have?
Our mission at http://www.hungryflix.com is to ensure that content providers are credited and paid for their work.
Read more here http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/youtube/18_reasons_why_google_and_youtube_are_guilty_of_copyright_infringement.html
This is not the view of this blog or http://www.hungryflix.com.
Much of YouTube's value does indeed come from the copyrighted works of others. If all copyrighted material was removed from YouTube how many visitors and page views would the site have?
Our mission at http://www.hungryflix.com is to ensure that content providers are credited and paid for their work.
Read more here http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/youtube/18_reasons_why_google_and_youtube_are_guilty_of_copyright_infringement.html
Labels: copyright, dmca, Google, online distribution, online video, youtube
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