Comments on: Viacom Withdraws Videos Its Employees Uploaded From YouTube Lawsuit

By: YouTube Accuses Viacom of Uploading Clips, Making Its Life Difficult

YouTube Accuses Viacom of Uploading Clips, Making Its Life Difficult — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:46:02 +0000

[...] Viacom’s actions would have made policing its content impossible. YouTube accuses Viacom of uploading its own content, and doing so in a way that made it difficult for YouTube to distinguish between its employees and [...]

By: MichaelJ

MichaelJ — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:53:25 +0000

What you're missing, n, is that the studios have a right to publicize their movies however they want. They own them. If YouTube is doing the same thing with the content as the studios, it's patently illegal, unless YouTube has acquired the rights.

I certainly don't have the same right to use your property as you do. If I steal your car to deliver pizzas, my defense can't be: "n delivers pizzas in this car, so I'm obviously allowed the same privilege."

By: n

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:19:27 +0000

the issue here is that the sudios did the same thing that they are accusing the "bad youtube" lol of. If they want to get onto someone, they have to sue themselves too.

By: pixelm1

pixelm1 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:55:02 +0000

Well - 250 clips out of 63,000 makes it seem like a YT or Google employee or two might have noticed that a couple out of the 62,800 left might have been infringing. It's not like Viacom posted thousands of old south park episodes or a whole movie in 10 parts for promotional purposes.