RSSIts Official, Google Swallows up YouTube.com … This should be interesting.
Google adds YouTube to its stable. Agreements with media companies aside, the threat of copyright infringement lawsuits will always be there. As long as there is a lawyer, there is a potential lawsuit.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Internet search leader Google is snapping up YouTube for $1.65 billion, brushing aside copyright concerns to seize a starring role in the online video revolution.
It came just a few hours after YouTube unveiled three separate agreements with media companies to counter the threat of copyright-infringement lawsuits.
Posted October 10, 2006 by Scared Monkeys Bloggers, Business, Internet, Media, Technology | one comment |
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The problem won’t be with the “major” media companies — it will be with the thousands of “small” ones that will sue over copyright infringement! Surely Google has thought this all out!?!
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SM: Maybe? We all know Napster did … R
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