Saturday, March 17, 2007

Viacom VS Google: Copyright Violations / Copyright Infringement



The interesting detail about the last salvo alleged copyright violations concerning Google YouTube is no suprise. My friend and I had talked about it about 6 months ago.

The two founders of dodge a huge bullet in copyright violations, and made out like a bandit in the process (i.e selling to Google). Not sure who has the better deal in the transaction, Google, or the two founders of YouTube. It's looking like that in the latest suit between . The potential is that if Google loses this suit, YouTube would not be a great investment (at least not in it's current form).

I would not underestimate . I would be willing to bet that there will be an 11th hour agreement to settle out of court. CEO Eric Schmidt is an extremely shrewd business leader. He will guide the company there this rough patch of currents.

This case is a precendence setting case. If wins, you better bet that there will a long line of companies / entities filing suits against YouTube. On the other hand if Google wins, this would be the exact oppossite of what happened in the music industry (i.e case).

I am sure the lawyers will battle it out in . In the end, the lawyers are the winners.



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