Media giant Viacom took its fight to the public that week seeking to outline battle lines in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube’s parent, Google. Viacom filed the lawsuit in March 2007 alleging that YouTube purposefully allowed Viacom’s copyrighted substance to be distributed on the site. The suit was filed after negotiations amidst Google and Viacom by licensing substance fell apart.

Viacom’s CEO Phillipe Dauman took jabs at his opponent at a San Francisco press conference. He expressed disappointment

in Google’s management of YouTube, citing numerous copyright violations still on the site months after negotiations with Viacom.

Was it planned?

While some observers point to a problem in YouTube’s architecture for weeding out and blocking protected composition, others believe YouTube and Google were intentionally lax in keeping such Viacom plums as the Daily Show, South Park, and other TV shows. Google maintains it is working on better filtering software […]

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