Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/viacom-sues-youtube-for-copyright-infringement Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. sued video-sharing Web site YouTube for more than $1 billion Tuesday for copyright infringement. Google, which now owns YouTube, said it was confident the site respects copyrights. A law professor discusses the case. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: It's a case of old media taking new media to court. Yesterday, Viacom filed a $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google, owner of the wildly popular Internet video-sharing Web site YouTube.Viacom, the parent company of Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, and much else, says YouTube has profited by illegally allowing nearly 160,000 clips of Viacom content to appear on YouTube, including programs such as "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report."Google responded that YouTube, home to both amateur and professionally produced video, has procedures in place to remove copyrighted material. It also says that the law, the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, shields YouTube in this case.The stakes are high: billions in advertising dollars and millions of viewers, who are increasingly going online for video.Old media companies, like Viacom, NBC-Universal, CBS Corporation, and News Corp. are watching the exploding online video industry with great interest, and wariness. NBC and CBS have struck promotional and advertising deals with YouTube that allow certain content to be posted on the site while protecting other video from distribution.Last month, Viacom itself struck a content-sharing deal with Joost, an upstart rival to YouTube.