Media bigs team up to study YouTube copyright issues
Steve Safran October 16th, 2006
If politics makes for strange bedfellows, money makes for even stranger ones. A bunch of big media heavyweights are working together to study the copyright issues surrounding YouTube. According to the Wall Street Journal, News Corp., General Electric’s NBC Universal and Viacom are among the companies looking into the matter. Meanwhile, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is in New York this week meeting with top media execs to reassure them that Google will not turn into a content competitor. (Via Fimoculous)
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1. invitedmedia | October 16th, 2006 at 6:35 am
why “study” them?
there is blatant copyright issues in play here…at least in how the law is currently interpreted.
the problem with taking action against goog is that they have pockets deep enough to push this case into being the one that sets new copyright rights for the 21st century and beyond.
better to just threaten them?
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