If Viacom, or anybody else for that matter, distributes information or content do they have intellectual property rights to the content? IMHO I would say they don’t, taken to the extreme (by asking the question of where is the line) AT&T could own the right’s to conversations between you and your friends; that sounds crazy. But, attorneys working for Viacom have sent a cease and desist letter to YouTube claiming – ownership? — of a Christopher Knight(C) 2007, production! Telling the “copyright holder” to remove it from YouTube.
Hat tip: http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/viacom-infringement/
Viacom has stopped short of plagiarism, they don’t claim they created it, they just claim exclusive rights to it in other words ownership.
Oh and if you are interested, Regal Cinemas, grabbed the rights to the Transformers movie based on this Arlington County Precedent
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