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So Viacom has slapped Google (or YouTube) with a $1-billion lawsuit for blatant copyright infringement on a massive scale, according to the entertainment conglomerate’s claim. On a side note, have you ever noticed how people invariably get slapped with lawsuits? Not just hit
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2 years ago
Yeah, negotiation is the name of the game.
Paul Kedrosky is right with respect to the ease of accessing of the clips. But, having the clips at individual locations do give more control to the content creator to provide a better "experience". Lets take Fox's "24" as an example, all the other info can be nicely packaged together with the clips. Just my 2 cents.
- Kempton
2 years ago
As far as Cuban is concerned, the nice part of being a Cuban Moronist is that we'll never know - or at least folks will be able to credibly debate for the next 20 years - whether he was right. And even a Supreme Court victory for Viacom with massive damages against GooTube will still allow some folks to argue that he's a moron ("GooTube changed the face of online video", "right idea, wrong time, still visionary", and so on).
And - heh - since when does Blodget, famous for being wrong about everything, become an Oracle about anything, especially a legal outcome that even the lawyers can't agree on (seriously, if it's come to that - "what Henry says" - we're all in the weeds.)
Put it another way - Cuban is looking a lot 'righter' these days than Blodget has ever been. Henry's argument boils down to (1) this will take a long time; (2) they'll probably settle before it's decided. Jeez, ya think? Cripes, my golden retriever told me that this morning over breakfast.
:)
As far as the 'making a real case under the DMCA' is concerned, Cynthia started that meme, as far as I can tell. All I'll say is that we should prolly assume that Viacom had a lawyer or two look this over before they filed it. Just maybe. I think it would be a mistake to underestimate Viacom on this.
2 years ago
While I hate being on the side of Viacom, I can understand why it would be pissed off that someone else is monitizing their creative work.
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2 years ago
Google has the money and Viacom wants a piece of it. Simple as that. But what do I know?
2 years ago
After all if you can take on Google and win you can influence the entire industry.
Similar to what the music industry did to Napster. Only they won.
This fight will be a long drawn out one.
Don't be surprised when MySpace has a similar type of lawsuit against them.
2 years ago
I just hope neither entity is dumb enough to take this all the way. A loss for Googe will strangle user generated video and sharing.