AP - Viacom-YouTube secrets to be exposed in lawsuit

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A legal tussle pitting media conglomerate Viacom Inc. against online video leader YouTube is about to get dirtier as a federal judge prepares to release documents that will expose their secrets and other confidential information....

 

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Viacom needs to yank it's head out of it's buttocks and realize all the free publicity that YouTube gives it.

 

I have a few vid's on YouTube where I have used background music and Viacom has made YouTube turn off the music because of copyright infringement.

 

granted, I did not have permission from Viacom to use those songs, but I am not hurting them in any way by using them, and I am telling the viewers who sings the songs and the titles of the songs. I am definitely helping Viacom more than I am hurting them by using their songs.

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But it being their property, is it not their decision as to if your helping more than your hurting?

 

Their property, their decision.