Posts Tagged with ‘viacom’

It's fairly obvious that YouTube is trying to clean up its act in light of the Viacom suit, clearing out any potential copyright issues. But when prominent YouTubers are impacted, does the seemingly overzealous housekeeping cause more damage than it helps?
Seesmic CEO and popular YouTube user Loic Lemeur found himself on the wrong end [...]

I have read and re-read Judge Stanton's decision in the Google/Viacom suit more times than I really should have. At first, I was as outraged as everyone else, assuming that Judge Stanton was one more government figure without a clue how the Internet even works.
So I called my mother, who works in the courts, and [...]

What do Viacom, Disney, Microsoft, and MySpace have in common? They all want to set “guidelines” in order to maintain copyrights online.
Yes, all four (seems a strangely small group considering the proportions of the effort, no?) have joined hands to work to establish a commonly acceptable system which will purportedly “stop pirated material” from [...]

ComScore, one of the more widely referenced research houses on technology-related matters today, has made its latest findings for Internet trends involving video available for all to see. Anyone who?s curious to know just how super popular online video has become, need look no further than ComScore?s newest report.
The facts and figures the research firm [...]

It has been very apparent lately that television networks are diligently working on plans to embrace the internet and everything that it offers.
Viacom's MTV Networks has kept itself ahead of the pack, being one of the first networks to offer full episodes of its television programming online for free, through MTV Overdrive.
Now, the company has [...]

Looks like a lawsuit against Google concerning the alleged encouragement of copyright infringement just became a group effort.
In addition to the two original plaintiffs in the case – England’s Premier League football organization and a music publisher by the name of Bourne & Co. - eight parties jumped onto the anti-GOOG bandwagon, stating that [...]

Ever since Google purchased YouTube last November, critics have been wondering what the search giant will do to reduce and control piracy on YouTube. Google is now knee-deep in litigation concerning this very issue. In March, Google was sued by Viacom, who is alleging copyright infringement on YouTube. Viacom is seeking a hefty $1 billion [...]

Here’s a piece of news so devoid of news yet so wonderful that we can’t help but give it a mention.
It has to do with the ongoing spat between Google and Viacom, and this time involves Google CEO Eric Schmidt. According to a Reuters report, the company’s top spokesman was having a session of Q&A [...]

My old favorite YouTube seems to be chugging along according to the news today. According to statistics from a Hitwise, Inc traffic data, from January to May the market share of visits to YouTube rose 70 percent even in light of the site's legal woes. The next closest site was News Corp's MySpace Video according [...]