The juicy details behind the Viacom - YouTube lawsuit

[Turborama]

If you're looking for a delicious tale about corporate guile, greed, and cynicism – and you have lots of time to spare -- then check out the newly unsealed court filings that Viacom and Google posted yesterday in the entertainment company's $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google-owned YouTube.

Full article here: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/03/media-morning-the-juicy-details-behind-the-viacom-youtube-lawsuit/1

The 108 page filing: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en/us/press/pdf/20100318_google_viacom_youtube_memorandum.pdf

[upi402]

1. I'll wait for Rachell or Dylan to explain it to me

"virality"ok :)

[ihavenobias]

2. Thanks for posting.

Interesting stuff.

[Greyhound]

3. Pretty much a complete non-issue outside of WorkCamp America.

The article's pretty short but it seems to boils down to Viacom sees Google has really deep pockets and is fishing for a payout.

Edit; sp

[madrchsod]

4. viacom is screwed

google counter sues and wins.....