Today, YouTube and Viacom unsealed many of the documents related to their longstanding copyright litigation, in which Viacom has sued Google for $1 billion. Viacom alleges that YouTube willingly facilitated the distribution of copyrighted material, and used it to boost its own traffic (while hurting Viacom’s bottom line in the process). We’re embedding the documents, which were released minutes ago, below (it may take a few minutes to get them all posted). We’ll be posting throughout the morning on what these documents reveal.
YouTube’s Brief
20100318_google_viacom_youtube_memorandum
Viacom Summary Judgement Motion
Viacom Summary Judgment Motion
Viacom Statement of Undisputed Facts
Viacom Statement of Undisputed Facts
Photo Credit/Flickr/ifindkarma
108 pages.
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Even more proof that Google is SkyNet and will be the end of the world.
(If you don’t know what 108 is, you have a terrible taste in TV.)
What is this “TV” you speak of?
http://www.4815162342.com/
Its a TV program called Lost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29
WOAH SHIT
Ha, National Lampoon called it! Google is Skynet!
http://www.youtube.com/natlamp#p/u/31/24CUidzZyBo
There is no merit to the Viacom suite as many of the videos in question were uploaded by Viacom, also Youtube did comply with all take down notices
From the GC’s blog:
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/03/broadcast-yourself.html
The highlight for me is this:
“For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko’s to upload clips from computers that couldn’t be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users.”
Viacom=sour grapes
#95 and #96 of viacom “disputed facts” show the attitude of youtube managers
“in an IM convo with co founder, she [product manager] found that 70% of top viewed videos were copyrighted material and claimed she flagged them for review. then said she was just kidding about flagging them.”
i really hope google loses
Wow in ten years google has a company like viacom going after them cause they are using the internet to make make profits out of their work.
VIACOM needs to get a life instead of using fraud to try and sue other companies. Grow up, hypocrates. (VIACOM, not fellow commentors)
Oh Google, lots of bad, bad things in there.
There is no merit to the Viacom suite as many of the videos in question were uploaded by Viacom, also Youtube did comply with all take down notices
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The practices Viacom used to "test the validitiy" of Google's copyright takedown policies was unethical and overzealous. I believe that alone, should be grounds to dismiss this suite in Google's favor. Go to hell Viacom, and you just lost a customer. There is nothing more sleazy than deceptive manipulation. I for one, love Google, and their presence online is invaluable; I will be boycotting Viacom.
Wow in ten years google has a company like viacom going after them cause they are using the internet to make make profits out of their work.
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