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Recently, Viacom's CEO Philippe Dauman declared that content is still king. Some, myself included, never believed it had been dethroned.

In Part I of this two-part series addressing the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit, I detailed why I think there's a reasonable likelihood that Google will be found liable for direct, contributory, and vicarious copyright infringement.

My belief that Google should be held liable for copyright infringement in Viacom's $1bn YouTube lawsuit is no secret.

With the lawsuit making headlines recently, I figured it was an appropriate time to lay out in some detail why I feel the way I do in a two-part series.

Drama 2.0's The Web Week in the Review focuses in on big companies (and big money) this week.

As noted in my last episode of The Web Week in Review, a federal judge has ordered that Google turn over a significant amount of data to Viacom, as part of its $1bn copyright infringement lawsuit over claims of massive copyright infringement on YouTube.

This data details what videos individual users have viewed and includes their IP addresses.

The news that captured my attention this week took a big media slant...

Google plans to fight the $1bn lawsuit brought against it by Viacom over the alleged use of copyrighted content on YouTube.

The lawsuit, filed by Viacom in March this year, accused YouTube/Google of 'massive intentional copyright infringement' due to the number of Viacom's clips which had been uploaded to the video site.

Viacom has sued Google for $1bn (£517m) over what it claims is "massive intentional copyright infringement" on YouTube and has asked for an injunction to stop any more of its videos being uploaded to the site.

This is the first major lawsuit to be filed against Google since its acquisition of YouTube, although it was not entirely unexpected.

Joost, the P2P internet TV service, is said to be close to securing a content deal with Viacom,  the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central.

Two weeks ago, Viacom demanded the removal of 100,000 of its clips from YouTube, after failing to reach an agreement with the video sharing site over use of its content.

Viacom, the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, has requested YouTube to remove 100,000 clips of its programming.

Viacom had been negotiating with Google over a deal that would allow the clips to be shown on YouTube in return for a share of ad revenues, but pulled out of talks after failing to reach an agreement.