Based on YouTube’s unauthorized showings of Viacom programs, Google (which now owns YouTube) is being sued for copyright infringement…for more than a billion bucks. Viacom contends that Google is making advertising income off of this video infringement.

Given the nature of the business model, look for Google to ultimately reach a settlement in this case whereby Viacom gets a cut of the ad revenues.

Hat tip to Reuters.

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With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 14 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young shows entrepreneurs how to protect and grow their businesses online. He's the author of Internet Marketing Legal Secrets Revealed. Not just a lawyer who focuses exclusively on Internet and marketing law, Mike’s been working with computers for more than 27 years (his first computer was an Atari 400 with 8 KiB RAM) and started representing Internet businesses back in 1996.