Google Says Viacom 'Covertly' Put Its Own Clips On YouTube

Google attorneys argue in the trove of documents unsealed in the long-running legal battle between YouTube and Viacom that while Viacom "now insists that YouTube is liable because it should have recognized that their content was not authorized, plaintiffs' own actions defeat that claim." Specifically, Google charges that Viacom not only "overtly and covertly" uploaded its own clips onto the site but also at one point tried to purchase it -- negating its argument that the site was "some kind of 'pirate' site."