Viacom has feuded publicly with YouTube and its parent Google about the unauthorized posting of its programming online.
Published: March 14, 2007
Since it bought YouTube last October, Google has been chasing deals that would give it the right to put mainstream video programming on the site. Just a few weeks ago, Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, seemed confident that this courtship of old-line media companies would prove fruitful.
"These things take time," Schmidt said in an interview. "There is lots and lots of talking and we have not hit any walls."
Now Google has hit a wall.
Viacom, the parent company of MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, filed a wide-ranging lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, accusing it of "massive copyright infringement." Viacom said it was seeking more than $1 billion in damages and an injunction prohibiting Google and YouTube from committing further infringement.
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