Viacom, one of media's monopoly giants, sued YouTube for allowing copyright infringement. The courts stated that YouTube were doing their jobs by removing this content and YouTube won the case.
But Viacom is at it again! Viacom claims that the court made the wrong decision and therefore they are reviving their lawsuit against YouTube!
What are your opinions about Viacom? Are Mike Mozart's arguments legitimate? Do you plan on making an effort to expose Viacom? If so, what do you plan on doing?
If you have any more news about Viacom's case against YouTube, please link!
Viacom is after youtube...in (MAYBE) attempts to DESTROY youtube what do i mean by destroy after making there profit youtube will barely have enough funds to survive so then google (yes google owns youtube) will have to sell youtube to viacom... (MAYBE)
Apparently, this isn't even the second time this has happened. From the wiki,
Main article: Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc.
In February 2007, Viacom sent upwards of 100,000 DMCA takedown notices to the video-sharing site YouTube. Of the 100,000, notices approximately 60â"70 non-infringing videos were erroneously removed under the auspices of copyright infringement.[12]
On March 13, 2007, Viacom filed a US$1 billion lawsuit against Google and YouTube alleging massive copyright infringement, alleging that users frequently uploaded copyrighted material to YouTubeâ"enough to cause a hit in revenue for Viacom and a gain in advertisement revenue for YouTube.[13] The complaint contended that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacomâs programming were made available on YouTube and that these clips had collectively been viewed more than 1.5 billion times. But at the same time Viacom was infringing the rights of many Youtube users by stealing and uploading their videos without permission.
In July 2008, the case generated controversy when District Judge Louis Stanton ruled that YouTube was required to hand over data detailing the viewing habits of every user who had ever watched videos on the site. [14] Judge Stanton rejected Viacom's request for YouTube to hand over the source code of its search engine system, saying that the code was a trade secret. [15] Google and Viacom later agreed to allow Google to anonymize all the data before handing it over to Viacom. [16]
On June 23, 2010, Judge Louis Stanton ruled in Google's favor in a motion for summary judgment, holding that Google was protected by provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, notwithstanding evidence of intentional copyright infringement. Viacom announced its intention to appeal the ruling.[17]
So this is more like the fourth law suit than the second...
Can someone explain why only the large sites are attacked for copyright infringement? Is it because of popularity? Or jealousy? Because its ridiculous that I cannot find a video on you tube because of "copyright infringement", but I can find it on many other sites.
Can someone explain why only the large sites are attacked for copyright infringement? Is it because of popularity? Or jealousy?
It's because YouTube is worth a lot of money.
Anyways, Viacom is very much in the wrong here. The vast majority of videos that could even qualify for any infringement are protected in some way.
Because YouTube was being threatened, the last time this happened Viacom had YouTube take down many videos that were protected by Fair Use policies.
If YouTube allowed people to post videos that were protected by copyright, then I would have no choice but to side with Viacom. However, YouTube works how us moderators work. We can't be everywhere at one time, so we depend on having members reporting problems to us.
If I remember correctly, shortly before SouthPark episode 201, the one that had Muhammad in it, there was a car that was said to be set with explosives right outside the Viacom building. Either the explosives were a dud or they found nothing, I can't remember.
This is only the start. The real sausage and mash of the matter is gonna become a cause of worldwide internet war. the WWW is not the only fish in the sea and there are other options that are becoming available. When people like Viacom shut doors, pirates kick holes in the wall. There is no winning.
So this is whose responsible for all those videos I liked being removed. Doesn't surprise me, Youtube is worth money and Viacom wants that money, but there might be some credit to their claim of copyright infringement, I'm not an expert on that law so I'm not entirely sure. Personally I'd like to see the law changed to some degree especially with things like DVD releases of series, when an artist allows their work to appear in a TV show the work as used on the show should become property of the show for DVD releases but that's another issue. As far as I know Youtube doesn't make money from the videos themselves but from the advertisments so they technically aren't profiting off of the copywriten material but it is the videos that bring users to look at the advertisments. It should be an interesting case, hopefully Viacom looses but I just don't know. Copyright laws are going to have to be altered to some degree in the near future thanks to the interenet, hopefully in our favor.
