GooTube copyright troubles?
p2pnet.net News:- Google may be the new owner of YouTube at a cost of $1.6 billion, and the members of the Big Four Organized Music cartel may now have vested interests in the company, but that doesn’t mean the dust generated by allegations of copyright violation will be settling any time soon.
Not while there’s maneuvering to be done.
“Dick Parsons, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, fired a shot across the bows of Google, saying his group would pursue its copyright complaints against the video sharing site YouTube.com,” says Guardian Unlimited, going on:
“Time Warner, the media and entertainment group that owns the Warner Brothers movie studio, Time Inc magazines and the HBO TV channel, is one of several large media companies concerned about possibly illegal use of its material on YouTube.”
Goo (sorry, You) Tube, “consistently violates” music industry copyrights, said UMG recently, but soon afterwards, “UMG broadly embraces the power and creativity of user-generated content, allowing users to incorporate music from UMG’s recorded music catalog into the videos they create and upload onto YouTube,” said the two companies.
Now, with PR-speak warning shots in the background, “You can assume we’re in negotiations with YouTube and that those negotiations will be kicked up to the Google level in the hope that we can get to some acceptable position,” Guardian Unlimited has Parsons saying.
When GooTube was just YouTube, threats against it had currency. But now it’s part of the Glory which is Google ……….
Also See:
Guardian Unlimited – Google faces copyright fight over YouTube, October 13, 2006
soon afterwards – Google swallows YouTube, October 9, 2006
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