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- YouTube Fires Back At Viacom
  Posted by Jeff
  As we say in the legal profession, 'issue has been joined' in Viacom v. YouTube. In its answer to Viacom's complaint (PDF), filed Friday, YouTube says Viacom's lawsuit is intended to 'challenge... the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") that Congress enacted a decade ago to encourage the development of services like YouTube.' It goes on to say that the suit 'threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic expression.'
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- Viacom's Hostility to Web Users Continues
  Posted by Jeff from Dailyshownews
  Since launching its new Web site for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Comedy Central network, whose parent company is Viacom, has as yet not offered an RSS feed for clips of the popular show (for now, you can use this one). As it releases new shows, such as Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and Lil Bush, it does so without providing an RSS feed for clips, as it used to here for earlier shows.
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- Google to Viacom - The Law is Clear, and On Our Side
  Posted by Jeff from Yro.slashdot
  "Google responded to the opinion piece in the Washington Post by a Viacom Lawyer with a letter to the editor titled 'An End Run on Copyright Law.' Their strong wording sends a very concrete message: 'Viacom is attempting to rewrite established copyright law through a baseless lawsuit. In February, after negotiations broke down, Viacom requested that YouTube take down more than 100,000 videos. We did so immediately, working through a weekend.
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- EFF sues Viacom over YouTube takedown of Colbert parody
  Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing
  Oh Viacom, you should read those DMCA lists of clips before you order them taken down: The video, called "Stop the Falsiness," was created by MoveOn and Brave New Films as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on Colbert's portrayal of the right-wing media and parodying MoveOn's own reputation for earnest political activism.
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- Daily Show on Viacom sues YouTube
  Posted by Jeff from Business.bostonherald
  Daily Show tells kids to make their own Daily Show.
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- Former Viacom boss's special needs
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Former Viacom chief Thomas Freston, who walked out with $85 million when he was sacked last year, is suing the New York board of education for not educating his son in public school.
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- iFilm Infringement Could Blunt Viacom's YouTube Argument
  Posted by Jeff from Chineseinvancouver.blogspot
  "Infringing videos on iFilm could undermine Viacom's case against YouTube. Although it's arguably not a nest of infringement like YouTube, iFilm appears to host more than a handful of videos for which its corporate parent Viacom does not own the copyright. More importantly, Viacom isn't engaging in the kind of proactive infringement identification practices it expects of YouTube, which may cause problems for them in court.
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Viacom demands YouTube remove videos

NewsCloud first reported this back in October 2006

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10:29 am 2/02/07

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