Viacom Sued Over YouTube Parody Removal

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 22, 2007 @11:38PM from the turnabout-still-fair-play dept.

A self aware computer input device writes "Just a week after Viacom sued Google over copyrighted material, MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave New Films LLC have sued Viacom claiming the cable network company improperly asked the video-sharing site YouTube to remove a parody of the network's 'The Colbert Report.' Couple this with the iFilm fiasco reported earlier, and you have to question how a company like Viacom can cry foul when it can't even accurately account for its own copyrighted material."

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Fair use is subjective by 91degrees · 2007-03-23 00:06 · Score: 0, Troll

Viacom have adequate reason to believe that this infringes copyright. Obviously the creators of the parody disagree. they have the right to disagree. Settling these disputes is what the legal system is for. I don't think the creators of this video have a strong enough claim that this was deliberate misrepresentation.