AOL Video Search Sued By Evel Knievel For Distributing Kanye West’s Music Video

Dec 14, 2006 at 8:35am ET by Barry Schwartz

Steve Bryant reports that Evel Knievel has sued not only Kanye West for making a music video that allegedly infringes on his likeness but has also sued AOL for helping distribute that video. AOL Video Search had clips of the music video come up for searches on “Evel Knievel.” When AOL was given the suit, they removed the music video they apparently hosted but it still comes up hosted elsewhere in their crawler-based search results. Oh, and Steve posted a YouTube video of the music video, I kinda like it. :)

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Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON AOL Video Search Sued By Evel Knievel For Distributing Kanye West’s Music Video

feedthebot, December 14th, 2006 at 11:25 am ET:

the evil kanevil youtube lawsuit should be received by the Google office by noon today. he he

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