Comments on: Viacom hopes Google's book settlement teaches it a lesson

The two companies continue to blast away at each other in the press, with Viacom pointing to Google's settlement with book publishers and Google taking aim at Viacom's copyright tactics.

[Signal-Support-System-Spc]

125 million (minus 30 mil for the establishment of the settlement Registry) is not enough. The damage has already been done and it is the authors who will suffer, not their publishers or Google for the matter.

[Renegade Knight]

The damage only exists if what Google has done has cost those authors sales.

[hates-fish]

Google did not admit any wrong doing and still says that it can legally copy the books and make parts of them available online.

The deal that they reached says that Google will use the $125 million to scan even more books to put on line and then profits will be shared between authors, publishers, and Google.

[johnericanderson]

"easier for Viacom to search YouTube for pirated content than it is for YouTube."

Easier for them to search Youtube than for us... Please. Same effort.

You make money on a product (Youtube) it is your reponsibility to do the work that is required, or suffer the consequences of getting caught (for being lazy).

Ask any other content provider.

[Renegade Knight]

Libraries are not responsible for the copyright woes of the book authors. Nor does the library have any obligation to seek out copyright issues. YouTube is like a library. It's up to the copyright owner to work out how they will conduct their own business.

There is a world of difference between a content provider and a content repository. Viacom is a provider.

[hafenbrack]

And since when has Google made any money from YouTube?

[Renegade Knight]

"Copyright laws provide creators with the incentive to create the works consumers crave,"
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Copyright laws reserve for the copyright holder the ability to market their work. Nothing more. If that work happens to be worthy the public will enjoy it, provided how they choose to market it doesn't make it such a royal PITA that other equilly deserving work in a more consumer friendly format gets their business instead.

Perhaps Goodle made a mistep. However they were closer to fair use than Viacom is to copyright intent.

[matchmate]

Well tell me that authors never got any benifit from using google as their revenue.

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