Question of ownership as copyright becomes a hot property
26th January 2009
With the brave new online world growing all the time, the question of who exactly has copyright of the mountain of information floating on the net is becoming an increasingly complex one.
Intellectual property, or IP as its known, has become a legal minefield, with a profitable industry developing on the internet on the back of other people's work.
Media conglomerate Viacom, which owns MTV among a host of other channels, is chasing YouTube owner Google through the US courts for damages of $1bn, claiming "massive infringement" of copyright on the video-sharing website. And the English Premier League has also launched legal action against YouTube for having "knowingly misappropriated" its intellectual property.
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