YouTube faces $1bn lawsuit for alleged breach of copyright
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2033398,00.html
Summary:
· MTV's owner takes on Google over site's TV clips
· Case is latest move in fight with established media
Basically this article is about MTV taking YouTube to court because it had infringed on some of the rights, but Google argue that they have not and that they stuck to all the rules and the laws.
Viacom (who own MTV) says that more than 160,000 individual YouTube clips have infringed its rights so far, and is concerned that these have been viewed more than 1.5bn times - depriving the company, it says, of valuable advertising revenue.
Viacom argue that many of the shows and songs that come on MTV have been recorded and then uploaded for people to watch for free on YouTube which is decreasing the revenue of them and therefore declining in profits.
Viacom clearly stated that "YouTube is clearly illegal" due to it making profit from unlicenced content on the website.
My Views:
In a way i think that Viacom have every right to take YouTube to court for allowing people to upload videos which people are able to watch for free. Artists and shows try to make money from selling their shows and then the channel needs people to watch it for it to make profit, but if everyone is watching online, who will watch it on tv? On the other hand, internet has been growing immensly in popularity with people, especially the younger generation and they don't think that they are breaking any laws by looking for videos on YouTube, its only another form of surfing the web and having something to do online. YouTube gives ordinary people to be able to watch anything they want and upload anything they want, which is good for democracy right? I mean is America not the "democratic" country?
Summary:
· MTV's owner takes on Google over site's TV clips
· Case is latest move in fight with established media
Basically this article is about MTV taking YouTube to court because it had infringed on some of the rights, but Google argue that they have not and that they stuck to all the rules and the laws.
Viacom (who own MTV) says that more than 160,000 individual YouTube clips have infringed its rights so far, and is concerned that these have been viewed more than 1.5bn times - depriving the company, it says, of valuable advertising revenue.
Viacom argue that many of the shows and songs that come on MTV have been recorded and then uploaded for people to watch for free on YouTube which is decreasing the revenue of them and therefore declining in profits.
Viacom clearly stated that "YouTube is clearly illegal" due to it making profit from unlicenced content on the website.
My Views:
In a way i think that Viacom have every right to take YouTube to court for allowing people to upload videos which people are able to watch for free. Artists and shows try to make money from selling their shows and then the channel needs people to watch it for it to make profit, but if everyone is watching online, who will watch it on tv? On the other hand, internet has been growing immensly in popularity with people, especially the younger generation and they don't think that they are breaking any laws by looking for videos on YouTube, its only another form of surfing the web and having something to do online. YouTube gives ordinary people to be able to watch anything they want and upload anything they want, which is good for democracy right? I mean is America not the "democratic" country?
