YouTube was intentionally built on infringement and there are countless internal YouTube communications demonstrating that YouTube’s founders and its employees intended to profit from that infringement. By their own admission, the site contained –truckloads– of infringing content and founder Steve Chen explained that YouTube needed to –steal– vi…   More

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Google-Viacom Court Documents Out; Google Says Viacom ‘
The three-year-old lawsuit in which Viacom is seeking $1 billion from Google over copyrighted videos on YouTube moved a step forward today with the release of

YouTube hits back in Viacom row
YouTube accuses Viacom of secretly uploading content to the video-sharing site whilst publicly complaining about its presence.

Viacom Seems To Be Misrepresenting YouTube Founder’s Call To
Weâ—-re still going through these recently released YouTube/Viacom litigation documents, and itâ—-s becoming clear that we canâ—-t take everything thatâ—-s being said by either party at face value (as if we didnâ—-t know that already).

Accusations Fly in Viacom, YouTube Copyright Fight
Google deliberately weakened its copyright compliance standards after it acquired YouTube in 2006 so it would profit from illegal downloads, Google co-founder

Youtube: Viacom is secretly uploading their videos
Youtube bites back at Viacom with this civil yet very obviously pissed blogpost. What’s interesting is that Youtube is accusing Viacom of the following:

Viacom vs. YouTube
Viacom sues YouTube over copyrighted material. Surprise: Viacom uploaded them.

Mark Cuban’s Take on the Viacom/Youtube Lawsuit
Those emails are pretty damaging.

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The Morning Fix: Carl Icahn makes his move! TV’s veteran shows ailing. Viacom … – Los Angeles Times (blog)
There were Viacom folks putting material up on YouTube. There was debate at Viacom about buying YouTube back in the site's early days, for the low, …

CNET News Daily Podcast: New revelations in Google-Viacom battle – CNET
Viacom and Google are airing their dirty laundry in court documents unsealed Thursday, revealing some noteworthy behind-the-scenes …

Business Highlights – The Associated Press
___ Court records illuminate Viacom-YouTube battle SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — YouTube co-founder Steve Chen once warned a fellow co-founder to stop posting …

Calls jump as Viacom breaks out – optionMONSTER Research (registration)
Call volume is popping in Viacom as the media stock breaks free of a 20-month resistance level. optionMONSTER's Heat Seeker tracking system detected the …

News to know: Palm’s meltdown; Viacom vs. Google; Hacking the iPhone – ZDNet (blog)
Viacom and hacking the iPhone are the themes of the day. You can get the day's rolling posts via Twitter, RSS, or email. When you talk about Palm two words …

Blockbuster should rent its own movies – MarketWatch
Viacom (NYSE:VIA) handily divested Blockbuster in October 2004. "Viacom's brass said they believed Blockbuster would be better off on its own," I wrote in a …

Excerpts From the YouTube, Viacom Documents – Wall Street Journal (blog)
As the Journal's Jessica Vascellaro, Ben Worthen and Sam Schechner report, Viacom claims that YouTube sought to exploit copyrighted works for profit, …

Stocks in the News: Google, Ford, Toyota, Lloyds, Palm, Viacom – DailyFinance
Viacom says YouTube, which is owned by Google, distributed more than 62000 video clips that infringed its intellectual property, and that those clips were …

Flyonthewall, Hildene, Google, Knauf in Court News – BusinessWeek
Google Inc.'s YouTube said Viacom Inc. secretly uploaded clips to its video-sharing Web site while complaining the Internet company violated its copyrights. …

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YouTube Accuses Viacom Of “Secretly” Uploading Content Before Suing For Copyright Infringement – http://tcrn.ch/9i779v by @erickschonfeld

YouTube Details Hypocrisy of Viacom’s $1 Billion Lawsuit
In response to opening briefs filed by Viacom today in their now three-year-old lawsuit against YouTube, the video sharing site has posted some startling accusations about the hypocrisy of the media giant’s claims.In a blog post, YouTube claims that at the same time Viacom was trying to sue YouTube into oblivion, it was secretly having its own content uploaded to the site. YouTube says that…

Viacom May Be Misrepresenting YouTube Founder’s Call To Steal It!
We’re still going through these recently released YouTube/Viacom litigation documents, and it’s becoming clear that we can’t take everything that’s being said by either party at face value (as if we didn’t know that already). We’ve come across a good example. In Viacom’s document Statement of Undisputed Facts, it presented the following seemingly damning passage that indicates…

Read The Just-Unsealed Documents From The YouTube/Viacom Case Here
Today, YouTube and Viacom unsealed many of the documents related to their longstanding copyright litigation, in which Viacom has sued Google for $1 billion. Viacom alleges that YouTube willingly facilitated the distribution of copyrighted material, and used it to boost its own traffic (while hurting Viacom’s bottom line in the process. We’re embedding the documents, which were released…

YouTube: Viacom would demand removal of videos it covertly uploaded itself — Engadget
As you may have heard, Viacom and YouTube have been having a little tift lately, in the form of a major lawsuit by the former over copyrighted material posted on the video portal. It’s a lawsuit that, according to YouTube, will cause such video sites to "cease to exist in the current form" — but more importantly, it’s a lawsuit that leads to some rather hilarious behind-the-scenes details.…

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Viacom, YouTube Air Dirty Laundry In Legal Battle
Viacom-YouTube secrets to be exposed in lawsuit.

Citing E-Mail, Viacom Says YouTube Ignored Copyrights
The charge was one of many made by Viacom in filings in its copyright lawsuit against YouTube and Google..

Court Records Illuminate Viacom-YouTube Battle
Viacom-YouTube secrets to be exposed in lawsuit.

Viacom-YouTube Secrets To Be Exposed In Lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO — A legal tussle pitting media conglomerate Viacom Inc. against online video leader YouTube is about to get dirtier as a federal judge prepares to release documents that will expose their secrets and other confidential information. The information expected to be unsealed Thursday will include some of the evidence that Viacom and Google-owned YouTube have collected to prove their respective points, but have kept under wraps so far during their 3-year-old dispute over copyright law. The sensitive material is emerging now because Viacom and YouTube are citing some of the documents as they try to persuade U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in New York to decide the case without a trial. Stanton isn’t likely to decide on a so-called summary judgment for several more months. Each side will likely be pointing to things that the other might find embarrassing. The evidence is expected to provide insights into the early strategies of YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and how they responded to copyright complaints that quickly accumulated a few months after the Web site’s 2005 debut. The documents also could reveal whether other media suitors tried to buy YouTube before Google acquired the site for $1.76 billion in 2006. Viacom, the owner of Paramount Pictures and cable TV channels that include Comedy Central, sued YouTube in 2007 seeking more than $1 billion in damages. Viacom alleges that YouTube built its early success by rampantly infringing on copyrights. YouTube maintains it follows the copyright laws governing the Internet. Viacom seems particularly interested in sharing some of the documents that it gathered from YouTube and Google.

Viacom-YouTube Secrets To Be Exposed In Lawsuit
Viacom-YouTube secrets to be exposed in lawsuit.

Hulu’s future in limbo after Viacom pulls plug
The future of Hulu is starting to play out like some of the dramas streamed on the popular, but unprofitable, Web site. Viacom’s decision this week to pull two of its most popular shows from Hulu underscores how vulnerable the fledgling video site is to the whims of major….

Viacom Will Take ‘Daily Show,’ ‘Colbert’ Off Hulu
Viacom will remove “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and other Comedy Central television shows from Hulu next week, in a move that represents the first major fracture between TV show owners and the popular video Web site..

Top Viacom, CBS execs open advisory shops
Two refugees from Sumner Redstone’s media empire are setting up separate advisory shops in the hopes of getting media and technology companies to work together more cooperatively — though they are approaching the divide in vastly different ways. Michael Wolf, who spent 15 months as chief operating officer of….

Paramount lifts quarterly results at Viacom
Brad Grey’s Paramount Pictures was a huge bright spot for Viacom last quarter. Spillover revenue from the surprise hit “Paranormal Activity,” which Grey calls his “miracle movie,” and stronger-than-expected DVD sales led Paramount to earn a stunning $298 million in the fourth quarter. That was nearly $130 million above….

Viacom vision
Brad Grey’s Paramount Pictures was a huge bright spot for Viacom last quarter. Spillover revenue from the surprise hit “Paranormal Activity,” which Grey calls his “miracle movie,” and stronger-than-expected DVD sales led Paramount to earn a stunning $298 million in the fourth quarter. That was nearly $130 million above….

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