viacom

USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab receives funding from BET Networks (Viacom), Disney, Paramount Pictures (Viacom), Viacom itself, Warner Bros.

Cannot the same thing be said to the people employed by content producers such as Viacom et al?

However, the article doesn't suggest any breakthroughs at Viacom that derived from the articles that he sent people.

There are always one or two PowerVu receivers tho: Viacom (MTV, A&E) is one notable feed.

But Viacom was in a nice, shiny, modern, bright office building that felt like lawyers' offices.

Once Google bought them companies like Viacom smelled money and went after them.

Correct, hence the very expensive and long lasting Viacom lawsuit.

But I don't recall if that was part of the reason why Viacom lost.

ContentID is a system for keeping Viacom et al.

Seems a bit whitewashed by not making any mention of all the youtube internal emails turned up in viacom's discovery with youtube staff participating in, aiding the infringement (including, e.g.

> (Though there was nothing unlawful about viacom uploading their own stuff to youtube...) I dunno, sounds kinda like entrapment or framing to me...

Wikipedia: "Viacom did not seek damages for any actions after Google put its Content ID filtering system in place in early 2008." Google and Viacom ultimately settled.

They aren't going to be "the next generation Viacom", but they are truly going to disrupt the entertainnment industry.

And Viacom has stopped showing reruns of "The Cosby Show", last recorded 22 years ago.

When Viacom sued Google/YouTube, they claimed that Google/YouTube had "general knowledge" of infringement.

Viacom and others fought for a long time to keep their videos off of youtube but eventually gave in.

See, e.g., Youtube's being built on the back of infringing Viacom's copyrights.

Viacom has plenty of money, and even they lost.