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Viacom Sues YouTube
The Internet website YouTube is growing like mad. Last year's nine million monthly visitors skyrocketed to 133 million this year, and Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion. Surveys show that 100 million video clips are viewed on YouTube every day and they're not all amateur home movies.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readThe Internet website YouTube is growing like mad. Last year's nine million monthly visitors skyrocketed to 133 million this year, and Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion. Surveys show that 100 million video clips are viewed on YouTube every day and they're not all amateur home movies. Big-time producers want their pieces of YouTube's action. Viacom -- which owns Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon --says Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and SpongeBob SquarePants have been appearing on YouTube for free. So, Viacom has sued YouTube for a billion dollars in damages. Will innovation and creativity be delayed as the law catches up with technology? We get perspective from attorneys, media analysts and former network execs.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Karen Radziner
Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?
Vanessa Romo
LA School Report
Douglas Lichtman
Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
James Boyle
Professor of Law at Duke Law School
Jordan Levin
Co-Founder, Generate