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Make Way for Copyright Chaos - Lessig on Viacom vs Google (nytimes.com)
4 points by brett on March 18, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



--- LAST week, Viacom asked a federal court to order the video-sharing service YouTube to pay it more than $1 billion in damages for some 150,000 videos that Viacom claims it owns and YouTube users have shared.

Over $6600 per video, discounting dupes of which I'm sure there will be masses, I wonder how they worked those figures out. $/view?

This could be a nice idea for a startup - something that can determine whether a given audio sample or video clip is pulled from copyrighted content. Of course it depends on sites like Youtube existing and users on it infringing.




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