Viacom says YouTube has failed to prevent breaches of copyright
Entertainment giant Viacom Media has announced that it is going to sue web search engine Google and video sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m).
Viacom has accused Google, which bought YouTube at the end of last year, of illegally using its TV programmes.
It said YouTube was guilty of "massive intentional copyright infringement".
Viacom claims that about 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programmes have been loaded onto YouTube's site and viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
The lawsuit seeks more than $1bn in damages and an injunction to prevent copyright infringement.
"YouTube's strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement on its site," said Viacom in a statement.
"Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws."
Last month, Viacom, which owns cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon, told YouTube to remove 100,000 "unauthorised" clips.
Viacom said its demand came after YouTube and Google failed to install tools to "filter" the unauthorised video clips.
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