Groklaw has the whole lawsuit and response posted in their legalese glory online, and asks a question about Viacom’s involvement with Joost.
Google Responds to Viacom
Google has released its official response to Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit against its YouTube property, saying that Viacom is threatening the way everyone exchanges information on the internet. Google’s claim is that Viacom’s lawsuit completely ignores the DMCA, and as a result threatens to unravel it and introduce all sorts of chaos for websites and service providers.
Google Answers Viacom Lawsuit
No real surprises emerged in Google’s response to Viacom’s billion-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube: Google denied Viacom’s claims and asked for a jury trial.
EFF Makes Viacom Cry Uncle On Fair Use
We’ve said it before: It’s not a good idea to eff with the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Now that Viacom has admitted it effed up by ordering the take down of a parody on YouTube, the EFF and Stanford Law’s Fair Use Project (FUP, or as they collectively should be known, EFF-FUP) have dismissed their lawsuit.
Yes, that was a long way to go for an effing pun.
Viacom, Yahoo Sign Online Advertising Deal
A deal has been announced that will see Yahoo act as the exclusive provider of sponsored search and contextual ads to all of Viacom’s web properties.
Analysts and commentators have suggested that Viacom’s billion-dollar lawsuit against Google may have been as much a contributing factor as its confidence in Yahoo’s ability to effectively monetize traffic.
It appears that Google’s loss is Yahoo’s gain, at least when it comes to dealing with Viacom.
Get A Clue, Viacom, Says Google
The media company wants to rewrite existing copyright laws to suit itself, Google has charged in response to Viacom’s op-ed piece in the Washington Post about the billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube.
YouTube,Viacom Case May Not See Courtroom
The legal battle between YouTube and Viacom comes down to one central issue. Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) apply to YouTube or are they guilty of copyright infringement as Viacom alleges?
The DMCA does protect Internet companies from copyright infringement if rights holders request that a company removes copyrighted material. This is something that YouTube has complied with in the past. YouTube believes that since they do comply with take down request that Viacom’s suit against them will not hold up in court.
Truthiness Comes To Viacom
The irony is so thick, it’s smothering. Viacom, who sued Google for a billion dollars over copyright infringement, is now being sued by MoveOn.org and the Electronic Frontier Foundation for not understanding the very Fair Use principles the network relies on for its own parodies on "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report."
Viacom And Google – The Next Day
A showdown between a content creator and the dominant search advertising company over the YouTube video sharing site continued to draw speculation over how the $1 billion lawsuit could end.
Viacom Sues Google, YouTube
Since negotiations fell apart between YouTube and Viacom, analysts have been speculating about whether or not the media conglomerate would take legal action against the popular video-sharing site. Specifically in light of the fact that Viacom video clips continue to appear in YouTube’s library on a regular basis.