Viacom orders YouTube to remove more than 100,000 video clips

February 2, 2007 | Matt Marshall
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viacom.bmpViacom, owner of a vast stable of videos, has requested that YouTube remove more than 100,000 unauthorized video clips from its site.

This comes after months of negotiation between Google and other entertainment content owners like Viacom. Story here, by Merc’s Elise Ackerman.

“It has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content available to YouTube users,” the entertainment giant said in a statement. “Filtering tools promised repeatedly by YouTube and Google have not been put in place, and they continue to host and stream vast amounts of unauthorized video.”

Google has indeed been stalling on implementing copyright filter tools, saying it is building its own filter technology. But that has only helped its new property, YouTube, keep its lead as a place you can find all kinds of video, including copyrighted stuff. Lawsuit coming?

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.

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