News Lawyer

Great article by Holman Jenkins in today’s Wall Street Journal regarding the emerging contours of battle between Google and Ma Bell’s progeny, whose strategy of upgrading the broadband pipes leading into homes might pay immense dividends in a streaming content world of movies-on-demand.

YouTube is working to perfect technology to allow for automatic filtering of copyrighted clips on its website.  Interesting allegation mentioned in the article that YouTube purposefully turned a blind eye to copyright infringement in order to build its audience and enhance its acquisition price.  That strategy may have worked.  Google paid $1.76 billion to acquire YouTube 11 months ago.