[dundee] Google beats Viacom in YouTube Court Case

Robert Ladyman it at file-away.co.uk
Fri Jun 25 08:39:52 UTC 2010


Bullet...meet foot

> Wow, you couldn't make this up!
> 
> "...on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that
> it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for
> their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is
> suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself."
> 
> Thanks for posting this!
> 
> Huntly Cameron
> e: huntly.cameron at gmail.com
> 
> On 25 June 2010 00:02, gordon dunlop <zubenel at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > This is where Viacom got burned in trying to sue Google about posted
> > copyrighted video material on YouTube, material which they posted
> > themselves. Read for yourselves the whole story, this quite an important
> > Law (U.S.) decision that will affect the posting of copyrighted content
> > on the internet.
> >
> > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100623182937462
> >
> > gordon
> >
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