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Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 3:46 PM
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Subject: Article of Possible Interest: Google's online video service
sued ... from Fritz @ Ball State
'Lo Everyone,
Google in a copyright video-gaggle?
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Google's online video service sued=20
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer
Wed Nov 8, 8:26 PM ET=20
Google Inc.'s online video service has been sued for copyright
infringement, providing a possible preview of the legal trouble that may
plague the Internet search leader after it takes over YouTube Inc. and
its library of pirated clips, the company said Wednesday.
Without providing detail, Google disclosed the video copyright lawsuit
in a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A
Google spokesman didn't have any further information about the suit late
Wednesday afternoon.
After Google launched its online video service in January, the Mountain
View-based company quickly found itself trying to catch up with YouTube
- an austere startup that emerged as a pop culture sensation a little
more than a year after its February 2005 inception in a Silicon Valley
garage.
Abandoning its attempts to eclipse YouTube, Google last month negotiated
a $1.65 billion deal to buy the 67-employee company.
Much of YouTube's success has been driven by easy access to copyrighted
video clips posted on the site by the Web site's millions of users.
YouTube removes videos when copyright owners complain, but pirated clips
continue to crop up.
The recurring problem has raised fears that some copyright owners are
delaying legal claims against YouTube until Google completes the
acquisition some time during the few weeks. While San Bruno-based
YouTube has been subsisting on $11.5 million in venture capital, Google
has accumulated $10.4 billion in cash.
In Wednesday's filing, Google acknowledged it could face more copyright
suits once the YouTube deal closes.
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