I mentioned last week that Viacom had sued Google/YouTube for $1B for claimed copyright infringement.
Today, an activists group sued Viacom back for having asked Google to remove an episode of the show “The Colbert Report”, claiming that having that show on YouTube was protected under the “fair use” clause of copyright agreements.
You can see the full story here.
This goes to further show how rights protection is evolving in the world today.
May 2, 2007 at 7:14 am
[...] One of the Digg users posted a story about the decryption key for an HD-DVD. The Digg owners were given a legal demand to take that story down, to which they complied similar to the Viacom / Google incident. [...]