Copyright Protection on Online Video

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Viacom, one of the world's biggest media company, owner of MTV, Paramount Pictures, BET, Comedy Central and others, is ambitiously expanding its online video presence. Like this new effort with Yahoo! Fortune magazine just published a story "Viacom's Plan to Be Cool Again." If Viacom is cool, it's also tough when it comes to protecting its intellectual property. It has taken YouTube to task in a $1 billion lawsuit filed earlier this year.

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