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A few days back, we had reported about Google’s YouTube being sued by Viacom, which owns brands like MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount, for almost 1 billion dollars, claiming that several of Viacom’s video shows had been illegally broadcast on YouTube. Viacom had also asked for access to YouTube’s source code and its search API but [...]

It was back in March 2007 that Viacom had filed a lawsuit against the search-engine giant Google, over copyright infringement. In the lawsuit that was filed against YouTube and its parent company, Google, Viacom had claimed that more than 150,000 unauthorized clips have been viewed for an astonishing 1.5 billion times.

MTV Networks had entered into an agreement with Atom Entertainment to acquire the company, along with Shockwave and AddictingGames, for $200 million on August 10, 2006. Now, two years after acquiring it, MTV Networks has transformed Atom Films into Atom.com, an aggregator of short comedy clips which is a sister site to its Comedy Central network dedicated to short-form, Web-based comedy.