Viacom CEO Dismisses Google Antipiracy Plan

Sunday, October 21. 2007

Viacom CEO Dismisses Google Antipiracy Plan

Viacom Inc.'s president and CEO took a swipe at Google Inc.'s announcement earlier this week of plans to launch a video-blocking tool aimed at allowing content owners to intercept copyrighted clips as they are uploaded to Google's video site YouTube.

Viacom's Philippe Dauman said at the Web 2.0 Summit here that instead of a proprietary system to block content that may infringe on copyright, there needs to be an industry standard for that type of effort.

Viacom is one of several companies that announced Thursday a new principle aimed at supporting filtering technology to ward off copyright violations. Viacom sued YouTube parent Google earlier this year for more than $1 billion, alleging that YouTube infringed Viacom's copyrights by posting unauthorized video clips.