Viacom Sues YouTube, Google

Media giant files suit against Google's video-sharing site for $1 billion in damages.
By Michael Cohn

Viacom filed suit against YouTube and its parent company Google on Tuesday, charging the video-sharing site with copyright infringement of its entertainment properties and claiming $1 billion in damages. The New York-based media giant said that nearly 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom's programming had appeared on YouTube and had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times. Besides monetary damages, it is seeking an injunction to prohibit Mountain View, California-based Google and YouTube from further copyright infringement. Viacom, like some other major media content providers such as NBC, have had a rocky relationship with YouTube, often ordering the site to take down videos that include content from its shows without its permission. Clips from Viacom shows such as Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have been popular fodder on the site.

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