Clash of the titans

VIACOM sued GOOGLE and its YOUTUBE website, claiming they had a "brazendisregard" for the copyright of video and song clips that are uploadedby YouTube's users. The two sides failed to reach a distributionagreement earlier this year and Viacom is now claiming $1 billion indamages. It is the biggest challenge yet to the ability of "new" onlinemedia to use content produced by "traditional" media companies.