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This is one crazy rumor (or maybe not that crazy)… so take it for what it is worth, entertainment value: watchmojo.com is speculating that CBS and Viacom might be interested in buying Joost: - CBS and Viacom launching a joint venture to counter Hulu.com The blog post is a [...] In the ongoing quest to make Internet popularity pay, Viacom’s Comedy Central channel today will unveil a website for “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” that’s designed to satisfy the most avid fans of the mock-news show with oceans of free video clips. Rather than providing just a sampling of the program’s fare, as Viacom and other [...] Internet TV provider Veoh Networks appears to be the darling of big-name former entertainment company CEOs. Already backed by ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner, Veoh yesterday said that former Viacom CEO Tom Freston and Jonathan Dolgen, who once helmed Paramount Pictures, were among the investors involved in a $25 million third round of venture capital financing. Another marquee name, [...] In a March 24 op-ed, Viacom’s general counsel, Michael Fricklas, defended his company’s lawsuit against YouTube and Google. Resisting the urge to litigate this case in public, we still thought it useful to reply briefly. Viacom’s lawsuit is an attack on the way people communicate on the Web and on the platforms that allow people to make [...] Could Sumner Redstone’s Viacom, the media giant that’s suing Google for facilitating piracy of shows such as the Colbert Report, please get its act together? Viacom, despite its overall inability to adapt to the internet, has had a few isolated online successes. Best Week Ever, a cultural roundup which runs on Viacom’s VH1 cable network, was [...] Viacom initiated litigation against YouTube and Google this month for their long-standing infringement of Viacom’s copyrights. YouTube defends itself from copyright infringement based on one narrow slice of the DMCA: protecting service providers who store copyrighted material solely and simply “at the direction of a user.” File storage Web sites allow users to back up their [...] On behalf of MoveOn.org and Brave New Films, EFF and Stanford’s Fair Use Project today filed a lawsuit against Viacom for improperly issuing a DMCA takedown notice to YouTube over “Stop the Falisiness,” a humorous video built around clips from The Colbert Report. Viacom promptly responded in a letter, saying that they have no objection to the [...] Summary of Forbes article: Activist groups sued the parent company of Comedy Central on Thursday, claiming the cable network improperly asked the video-sharing site YouTube to remove a parody of the network’s “The Colbert Report.” The challenge, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, came about a week after Viacom filed its own, $1 billion lawsuit against [...] Summary of press release: New York, March 22, 2007 – News Corporation and NBC Universal will launch the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled with the most sought-after content from television and film, it was announced today by Jeff Zucker, President and Chief Executive Officer, NBC Universal and Peter Chernin, President and Chief Operating Officer, News [...] Even as Viacom sues YouTube for what it describes as “brazen” copyright infringement, some of Viacom’s own dirty copyright laundry is being aired. Ars searched one Viacom property—iFilm, which was acquired by Viacom in 2005—and found several instances of infringing video hosted by iFilm—content for which Viacom does not own the copyright. In its complaint against YouTube, [...] |
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