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Viacom Copyright Suit Against YouTube Called Threat to Online Media

National News • May 28, 2008
A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all ...

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Subject: RE: RE: RE: simple property rights

Posted On: May 28, 2008, 3:01 pm CDT
Posted By: lastbat
Comment:
This is a case of simple property rights, though Viacom is trying to sue to wrong party. I recall an article about this several months ago and one of the reasons Viacom is suing YouTube is because while YouTube is very good about removing offending material in a timely manner once notified Viacom feels that YouTube should be the ones policing for copyright violations. The gist is Viacom wants YouTube to spend the money to protect Viacom's interests instead of Viacom protecting their own interests. Viacom needs to protect their own copyrights instead of trying to force others to protect them.

And for the person that wondered about the difference between YouTube and Blockbuster - Blockbuster licenses the material they rent to you. Every time you rent a movie everyone gets a piece. On YouTube the only party getting a piece of the action is YouTube.
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RE: RE: another way to look at it? Fred Hilpert
May 29, 2008, 7:38 am
RE: another way to look at it? lastbat
May 28, 2008, 7:59 pm
another way to look at it? Greg
May 28, 2008, 7:05 pm
RE: RE: RE: This may be a stupid question... johnny
May 28, 2008, 4:43 pm
simple property rights Mike
May 28, 2008, 3:08 pm
RE: RE: RE: simple property rights lastbat
May 28, 2008, 3:01 pm
RE: RE: simple property rights The Benevolent One
May 28, 2008, 2:41 pm
RE: simple property rights Matt
May 28, 2008, 2:05 pm
RE: simple property rights Nebraskan
May 28, 2008, 1:56 pm
simple property rights Greg
May 28, 2008, 1:16 pm
RE: RE: RE: This may be a stupid question... Compman
May 28, 2008, 1:08 pm
RE: RE: This may be a stupid question... Guy
May 28, 2008, 12:50 pm
RE: This may be a stupid question... Nebraskan
May 28, 2008, 11:49 am
This may be a stupid question... KLS
May 28, 2008, 11:27 am
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