Report: Google hits back in Viacom suit
Los Angeles Business from bizjournals
Google Inc. has filed a motion in San Jose federal court asking for internal records from a company hired by Viacom in its $1 billion copyright infringement suit, according to a report Monday.
MarketWatch reported that Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) wants the records of Los Altos-based BayTSP Inc., which offers copyright policing services.
New York-based Viacom (NYSE:VIA), which filed suit against Google last year, has depended a great deal on evidence provided by BayTSP, Market Watch said, and Google claims its documents would actually refute some of Viacom's claims.
Google said BayTSP said nothing about alleged infringement of Viacom's content on its YouTube subsidiary for months and then sent 100,000 requests in one day to remove material.
Viacom (NYSE:VIA) -- the parent company of Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon -- had sued Google and YouTube for alleged copyright infringement in a $1 billion suit.
Viacom said at the time that YouTube had almost 160,000 unauthorized Viacom clips on its site, and they have been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
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