iFilm Infringement Could Blunt Viacom's YouTube Argument

Radio Silence writes "Infringing videos on iFilm could undermine Viacom's case against YouTube. Although it's arguably not a nest of infringement like YouTube, iFilm appears to host more than a handful of videos for which its corporate parent Viacom does not own the copyright. More importantly, Viacom isn't engaging in the kind of proactive infringement identification practices it expects of YouTube, which may cause problems for them in court. 'if Viacom isn't willing to take the same steps with iFilm that it wants YouTube to take with copyrighted content, Viacom may have a harder time making its case before the judge presiding over the case. "It would have some persuasive value with a judge if YouTube says 'look, they're ranting and raving about all this infringement occurring on my site and they're not doing anything about it themselves,'" said copyright attorney Greg Gabriel.'"

Re:Skeletons

[j00r0m4nc3r]

Forget the closet, Viacom has skeletons in its boardroom

This just in...

[rizzo320]

iFilm has been purchased by Google, and is now being sued for $1 billion by Viacom. Film at 11... (oh wait its copyrighted by Viacom, never mind!).

Re:Skeletons

[rizzo320]

Perhaps Bartleby and Loki [youtube.com] should make a visit to a Viacom board meeting. Now that would be progress!

Again...

[fluch]

...all are equal, just some are more equal than others. At least a variant of it. :)

Re:do

[Fordiman]

Where on YouTube can I watch a season of [TV show]?

'cos seriously, I've been using this bit torrent thing, and it's just too damned much trouble. All this uncut high quality fullscreen video scares me. Give me five hundered blurry ten-minute clips in a tiny little subscreen any day; that I understand.