Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Google has fired its first salvo against Viacom indicating in its official response that the media giant's copyright-infringement lawsuit threatens the way hundreds of millions of Internet users exchange information online. The dispute between the new and old media titans is now shaping up to be a landmark legal battle which may have implications for the future course of Internet entertainment and communications.
Viacom, a media conglomerate which owns a number
of cable TV properties and, such as MTV and Comedy Central, as well as
Paramount Pictures, filed a US$1 billion plus lawsuit against Google
and its popular video sharing site YouTube in the US District Court of
New York in March, alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted material.
Google yesterday hit back with an official filing using an attack on
Viacom's action as its initial defence. According to Google's filing in
the US District Court Southern District of New York, Viacom's action
challenges the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which balances
the rights of copyright holders and the need to protect the internet as
an important new form of communication.
"By seeking to make carriers and hosting providers liable for internet
communications, Viacom's complaint threatens the way hundreds of
millions of people
legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic expression," Google wrote in its filing.
The impending trial may well be a watershed in the way is distributed
and shared over the Internet. The DMCA protects Internet publishers
from copyright-infringement lawsuits provided they remove the offending
material when a complaint has been received. YouTube, which has
received numerous complaints from copyright holders follows this
practice.
However, Viacom claims that the DMCA protections do not apply to
YouTube because the site relies largely on posted copyrighted material
to get its audience.
Traditional media that haven't signed copyright licensing agreements
with YouTube have been at odds with the site because its sheer size
makes searching for infringing copyrighted material, which in the case
of major content providers can run into ten of thousands of posted
video clips, very time consuming.
Google, which has hired a top flight legal team, has made it clear that
it is not interested in a settlement and closed its submission with a
demand for a jury trial.
David Frost
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