Viacom Sued For Allegedly Forcing Removal Of YouTube Video
Viacom Sued Over YouTube Parody Removal from the Associated Press reports that Viacom has been sued by several activist groups for allegedly forcing YouTube to remove a video of “The Colbert Report.” But Viacom says it never made such a request. The suit was filed in part by Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford Law School’s […]
Barry Schwartz on March 23, 2007 at 8:35 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Viacom Sued Over YouTube Parody Removal from the Associated Press reports that Viacom has been sued by several activist groups for allegedly forcing YouTube to remove a video of “The Colbert Report.” But Viacom says it never made such a request.
The suit was filed in part by Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society in U.S. District Court in San Francisco a week after Viacom sued YouTube. Google and YouTube were not named in the latest lawsuit.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.