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Viacom sues YouTube, Google
Company seeks more than $1 billion in damages
By MICHAEL LEARMONTH
After months of what it described as "unproductive negotiation," Viacom sued YouTube and Google for "massive intentional copyright infringement" on Tuesday, contending 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom content have been viewed 1.5 billion times on the video sharing service.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, seeks more than $1 billion in damages and asks for an injunction prohibiting the company from allowing further Viacom-owned clips from being uploaded.
"YouTube is a significant for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to other's creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google," Viacom said, in a statement. "Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws."
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Viacom sues YouTube, Google
Company seeks more than $1 billion in damages
By MICHAEL LEARMONTH
After months of what it described as "unproductive negotiation," Viacom sued YouTube and Google for "massive intentional copyright infringement" on Tuesday, contending 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom content have been viewed 1.5 billion times on the video sharing service.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, seeks more than $1 billion in damages and asks for an injunction prohibiting the company from allowing further Viacom-owned clips from being uploaded.
"YouTube is a significant for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out of exploiting the devotion of fans to other's creative works in order to enrich itself and its corporate parent Google," Viacom said, in a statement. "Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws."
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