Viacom vs. YouTube…(bloggin’ frenzy)
From Slashdot
Snowgen writes: “Viacom has filed a $1,000,000,000.00 lawsuitfor ‘massive intentional copyright infringement’ against Google over YouTube video clips. ‘”YouTube’s strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement on its site,” Viacom said in a statement. “Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws.’”
It will be interesting to see how this case gets handled. I am not going to overload this post with links to various articles, because they’re all over the place. I feel that the structure of YouTube is set up for user (Web 2.0) posting. With this in mind, how can YouTube create a program that actually watches the content, decides if it is copyrighted or not, then allow or deny the posting of that content. To my knowledge this can’t be done. On the other hand, YouTube could have a group of employees who sit in front of a monitor viewing content all day long, where the visual aspect is taken into account. With humans scanning content, it would be much easier to recognize copyrighted material. Is this efficient? Probably not, but it may be the only way to filter “user posted” material.
In the same aspect, I could post some offensive material on my website, and it may be noticed or may not be noticed. The fact is that until someone see’s it, and takes action it would be available. At the end of the day does Viacom really have a case here? I have no idea, but I do know that Viacom is everywhere…yes everywhere, and it sucks! GO YouTube/Google!!
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