Tuesday, September 2, 2008

AP Technology NewsBrief at 6:44 p.m. EDT

(AP Online Via Get Media NewsEdge) Court orders YouTube to give Viacom picture logsNEW York (AP) _ Dismissing privateness concerns, a federal justice overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube have ordered the popular online video-sharing service to let on who watches which picture cartridge holders and when. U.S. District Judge Joe Louis L. Elizabeth Cady Stanton authorized full entree to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other right of first publication holders argued that they needed the information to demo whether their copyright-protected videos are more than heavily watched than recreational clips.

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