Viacom Exec Not Satisfied With Google YouTube Plan

Morshad published 19 Oct 2007, 16:22 in main - 209 views

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The chief executive of media giant Viacom expressed reservations Thursday about Google's plan to enter YouTube content into a database and give owners the chance to take down the material.

Viacom is suing Google for US$1 billion over content being used on Google's YouTube Web property without permission. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit event San Francisco, Viacom President/CEO Phillipe Dauman expressed a willingness to work with online media properties but was skeptical of the Google plan, called Video Identification.

Dauman said he had an open mind about reaching an agreement and that the announcement of Video Identification was a positive evolution. But it is not enough.

News source: PC World

Tags: Viacom Exec, Google, YouTube

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