SAN FRANCISCO - Viacom demanded on Friday that YouTube remove more than 100,000 unauthorised clips of its television programmes from the popular video-sharing website.
Viacom said it insisted that clips from its programmes such as MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon be "removed immediately" after months of failed negotiations with Google-owned YouTube regarding getting paid for their use.
"It has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content available to YouTube users," Viacom said in a written statement.
"Filtering tools promised repeatedly by YouTube and Google have not been put in place, and they continue to host and stream vast amounts of unauthorised video."
Viacom accused YouTube and Google of hording advertising revenue from the website and that Google compounded the issue recently by including video from YouTube in results from the Google Video search engine.
Google bought YouTube in November in a 1.65-billion-dollar stock deal.
Video content on YouTube is provided by users and ranges from amateurish, homemade vignettes to clips from professional films, television programmes and music videos.
YouTube has gone on record saying it follows US law by removing copyrighted works when the owners complain and is developing "fingerprinting" technology to better defend video ownership.
- AFP
the Bear
i never understood why tv people want things pulled from youtube..
it's just free publicity!
bryanseb
Originally posted by the Bear:
i never understood why tv people want things pulled from youtube..
it's just free publicity!
I think some of the youtube videos are in the google video as well, that's why they want youtube to pull out it's shows..