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 […]

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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
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Barry Schwartz is 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. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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