Viacom fights against unauthorized clips on YouTube
The US media giant Viacom, which owns the channels MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, among others, wants the website YouTube to remove over 100,000 video clips. These are recordings of programs from Viacom channels.
The US media giant Viacom, which owns channels including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, wants the website YouTube to remove over 100,000 video clips. Previously, months of talks between YouTube, which was bought by Google, and Viacom about compensation remained fruitless, as reported by the daily newspaper Bund, based on the SDA. According to Viacom, the clips were viewed a total of 1.2 billion times.
Under current law, media companies can demand that copyrighted material they discover on the internet be removed. However, the videos have to be found first.
YouTube was able to negotiate a license deal with the television stations CBS and NBC. The video website is also developing a system that will automatically remunerate rights holders. However, Viacom, Fox and also CBS and NBC are considering setting up their own video website. YouTube was acquired by Google last November. The search engine company announced in January that it was discontinuing its own video sharing service.
Under current law, media companies can demand that copyrighted material they discover on the internet be removed. However, the videos have to be found first.
YouTube was able to negotiate a license deal with the television stations CBS and NBC. The video website is also developing a system that will automatically remunerate rights holders. However, Viacom, Fox and also CBS and NBC are considering setting up their own video website. YouTube was acquired by Google last November. The search engine company announced in January that it was discontinuing its own video sharing service.
