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Viacom Demands YouTube Remove Its Content
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Alexandra Delyle
February 02, 2007
The media conglomerate ordered that over 100,000 clips of Viacom programming be removed from YouTube, claiming that the video-sharing site had not "come to a fair market agreement" for the content.
The clips represent some $1.2 billion video streams on YouTube, according to Viacom, who alleges that the site and its parent company, Google, failed to follow through on agreements to provide filters and other tools that would alert Viacom of its running content. In a statement, Viacom said,
YouTube and Google retain all of the revenue from this practice without extending fair compensation to the people who have expended all of the effort and cost to create it... Our hope is that YouTube and Google will support a fair and authorized distribution model that allows consumers to continue to enjoy our very popular content now and in the future."