...employees are aware that copyrighted materials were being posted and not only did absolutely nothing, they were laughing about it.
Except Viacom was uploading their own stuff, even making it look bootlegged, to market it. Is it up to Google to unilaterally take down Viacom-copyrighted material that was uploaded by Viacom itself? Many rights holders want their stuff on youtube.
Viacom's self-uploading was so sneaky that some of the videos they sued Google over were actually uploaded by marketing firms they hired to do just that!
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...employees are aware that copyrighted materials were being posted and not only did absolutely nothing, they were laughing about it.
Except Viacom was uploading their own stuff, even making it look bootlegged, to market it. Is it up to Google to unilaterally take down Viacom-copyrighted material that was uploaded by Viacom itself? Many rights holders want their stuff on youtube. Viacom's self-uploading was so sneaky that some of the videos they sued Google over were actually uploaded by marketing firms they hired to do just that!