Coming to a PDF Near You: Adobe announced today that it is teaming with Yahoo to put text-based ads in PDF files. … The new and improved version of Apple’s iPhone will be able to download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson announced last night. … For Facebook, Nothing’s Set in Concrete: Responding to criticism from MoveOn, Facebook execs are looking into changes to the recently launched Beacon advertising tool.
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Good thing Viacom and CBS Corp. Chairman Sumner Redstone plans to live at least another 50 years; he may actually be around long enough to see the realization of Viacom’s grand Internet strategy and its bet on the marriage of old-line media assets with new distribution technologies. Assuming, of course, the sanctity of copyright [...]
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John Heileman, contributing editor at New York magazine, begins the conversation with Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman by discussing the plan unveiled today to post Comedy Central’s “Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on the Web. As owner of Comedy Central, Viacom is seeking to spread the cable channel’s content on many platforms, thus creating a “richer” [...]
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Google’s apparently finished “educating users about copyright law” and has moved on to the far more important business of making sure not to run afoul of it. After a year of delays and excuses, the company this morning uncrated an antipiracy system for its YouTube video-sharing site.
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Looks like Google has updated its arrogance algorithm again. After dismissing Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over video clips on YouTube as a “mistake” at our D5 conference in May, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken another shot at the media conglomerate and its CEO Philippe “Dough Man” Dauman. Chatting with reporters at a [...]
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Google may not have figured out the best way to cash in on its $1.65 billion YouTube purchase, but the entertainment industry obviously has: litigation. NBC Universal and Viacom have filed an amicus curiae, or friend-of-the-court, brief in support of a pending copyright-infringement lawsuit against the video site–one that could have a critical impact on the future of online video.
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When Google acquired YouTube, conventional wisdom had it that the company had purchased a start-up whose business model was built almost from the ground up on liabilities. As entrepreneur Mark Cuban once said, “Only a moron would buy YouTube.”
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