Google defeats Viacom in $1billion copyright spat

A mightily-miffed Viacom has filed an appeal against a previous court ruling that found Google's YouTube not guilty of charges of copyright infringement. The media company filed a case to appeal against a 23 June ruling by US...

Video sharing website YouTube dominated online video traffic for April, receiving a massive 13.09 billion page views.83.5 per cent of all internet users viewed YouTube content over April, making its viewing figures the highest...

The founders of video sharing service YouTube not only knew that their service was being swamped by copyright-infringing videos but one of them actually uploaded many of them himself, according emails released in a court battle...

The US District Court of Southern District of New York has released documents pertaining to the on-going Google v/s Viacom copyright infringement lawsuit, which was filed by Viacom back in 2007, claiming that Google had allowed...

Web metrics company comScore on Monday claimed that a record number of internet users in the US watched online videos in August with YouTube snaring a majority share of the audience. A staggering 161 million users in the US...

Joost, the video website that was launched in 2006 by the guys behind Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has announced that it is retreating from the consumer market and will become a white label service provider. The...

It seems that Google is reconditioning its relations with some of its big media partners, apparently by offering them some piece of ad revenues for posting their videos on YouTube.  The technology blog TechCrunch notified...

The user IDs and internet protocol (IP) addresses of everyone who has ever watched a video on YouTube will not now be sent by its parent company Google to Viacom after a climb-down by the television company As part of its $1...

Viacom, MTV and others have backed off from their original demands to access all user's viewing histories according to a blog post on Youtube's website yesterday. In addition, the court rejected the demand by Viacom to access...

Privacy advocates fear that users will be identifiable, though others have pointed out that identification of most users will be almost impossible without the unlikely cooperation of internet service providers (ISPs).Viacom has...

Following a lawsuit between Viacom and Google, Judge Stanton has asked Google to release the records of all the people who ever saw a video on YouTube to ViacomYouTube has been accused of copyright infringement by media giant...

Google has hit back at Media company Viacom over a $1 billion lawsuit against online video star, Youtube and claimed that the lawsuit could endanger internet freedom. Viacom, the owner of Paramount Comedy and Nickelodeon TV...

YouTube is accused by media conglomerate Viacom of copyright infringement in a $1 billion court case that could prove a vital testing ground for the legal basis of businesses grounded in user-submitted content. Google said that...

Google's share price could be dangerously close to its 52-week low at $437.92 but a few good news should comfort the search giant's shareholders. First, Comscore published some data which showed how dominant Google is in the...

Video sharing website YouTube hopes to filter out unauthorised copyrighted material by the end of the year, according to a lawyer for its owner, Google.Philip Beck said that the company hoped to have its system in place by...