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MTV Networks executives wanted to buy YouTube, court documents show by Company Town

Court documents unsealed Thursday show Viacom's MTV Networks had planned to buy YouTube in 2006.
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Documents in Viacom's $1-billion lawsuit against YouTube are unsealed by Company Town

Court documents related to Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube outline fundamental differences over the responsibility of social networks in monitoring user-uploaded content.
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YouTube takes on MySpace Music at SXSW by Company Town

YouTube launches "Musicians Wanted," a program for independent musicians who want to set up their own YouTube channels and share the advertising revenue generated by their music videos.

YouTube begins its push into online movie rentals by Company Town

The world's most popular video website is getting into the pay-per-view business. Google Inc.'s YouTube announced today that it will make a total of five movies from the 2010 and 2009 Sundance film festivals available for online rental. It's...
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Univision se hace amigos con YouTube by Company Town

Univision Communications and Google's YouTube have cut a deal to put much of the Spanish broadcaster's content on the video website. If you're looking to catch up on the network's popular telenovelas there, though, you're out of luck...
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YouTube gets 'Taxi Driver' from Sony's Crackle by Company Town

You lookin' at YouTube? Continuing its slow journey to add premium Hollywood content, YouTube has just posted its second major studio film to the site, the 1976 classic "Taxi Driver." The film, when went on the Google-owned viral video site...
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YouTube and Warner Music reach deal on music videos by Company Town

Music videos from Green Day, Metallica and Madonna will begin reappearing on YouTube by the end of the year as Google Inc.'s giant online video site struck an agreement with Warner Music Group. Warner videos disappeared from YouTube last December...
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YouTube, movie studios in talks on streaming content for fee by Company Town

Google Inc.'s YouTube may become the next window in the Hollywood distribution chain. The video-sharing site is in early talks with Warner Bros., Sony Pictures and Lionsgate about streaming movies online to its users for a rental fee, people close...
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YouTube strikes a deal with Time Warner for content by Company Town

"Gossip Girl" is headed to YouTube -- legally this time. Time Warner Inc. has signed an online video distribution deal with Google Inc.'s YouTube to furnish clips of movies, television programs and news content from Warner Bros. Television...
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Report: YouTube losing less money than thought, happy Hollywood doesn't know it by Company Town

In the entertainment business, it's customary practice to publicly boast that almost every new movie and TV show is a hit. If a new report from IT consulting firm RampRate (not your usual savvy analysts of showbiz, but bear with...
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