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Viacom Sues Google/YouTube for $1 Billion

Back when Google spent $1.65 billion to acquire video sharing site YouTube, folks in some quarters were wondering how wise a move that might have been. The only reason YouTube hadn’t been sued out of existence, the argument went, was that the company didn’t have any significant assets with which it could pay damages to media companies for the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of copyrighted clips users uploaded to the site.

But when Google took over, YouTube’s pockets went from empty to very, very deep. And today, media conglomerate Viacom has filed suit against YouTube and Google, seeking $1 billion in damages from “massive copyright infringement” perpetrated by the site.  Read more...

Viacom Gets Joost Up

Media conglomerate Viacom hasn’t been too happy with Google’s YouTube online video service, asking the service to remove thousands of clips from Viacom programming (including bits of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, which have been popular on the YouTube). It appeared the two organizations had reached a détente of sorts in October 2006, but just a couple weeks ago Viacom again went to YouTube and demanded it remove all Viacom content from the service. And let’s not forget that, in addition to Comedy Central, Viacom also controls content from MTV, Nickelodeon, VH!, CMT, Spike TV, and BET—the total number of clips involved in the takedown demand was widely reported to total near 100,000. And Viacom made its displeasure clear in a statement: “It has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content available to YouTube users. YouTube and Google retain all of the revenue generated from this practice, without extending fair compensation to the people who have expended all of the effort and cost to create it.”  Read more...

Study: 35 Pct of Parents Play Video Games

A national survey conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates on behalf of the Entertainment Software Association finds that 35 percent of U.S. parents surveyed said they play computer and video games. The vast majority of these “gamer parents” (80 percent) report that they play games with their children, and two thirds (66 percent) feel the game-playing has brought their families closer together.

The ESA is a trade group representing the U.S. video and computer game publishers; among other things, the ESA operates an antipiracy program, fights legislation restraining video game rentals and sales it feels impinges on the constitutional rights of video game publishers, conducts business and consumer research, and promote initiatives and technologies to protect publisher’s intellectual property.  Read more...

iWatchNow Offers New VOD Option

A new web-based video on demand service called iWatchNow debuted yesterday which offers over 3,000 hours of television programming, feature films and music videos. This service is compatible with PCs, Macs and Linux based computers.

iWatchNow’s programming, which is accessible with a fifth generation iPod with video capability, includes classic series as “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Bonanza,” “Dragnet,” “Dick Tracy,” “Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life,” “The Jack Benny Show,” “Roy Rogers,” “The Lone Ranger” and original cartoons, including “Felix,” “Superman,” “Casper” and “Popeye,” among them.  Read more...

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