So, it seems it is finally going to happen.Google is calling the bluff on Viacom's $1B claim for copyright infringement and replied with a "see in court" type reaction.
How can the suit not to happen now? it will as both parties seem to be short in option to keep face in what is already the most visible disput of the over bubble era.
Philip Beck of law firm Bartlit Beck, who argued President George W. Bush's side in the Florida vote-counting case following the 2000 election, is one of the attorneys from two outside firms named to represent Google. The Chicago-based attorney also defended Merck in the Vioxx drug case. [all story here]
No doubt that content, and user content will get generated and will get numerous books about it, if not a movie.
This, to me, is definitely the trial of the Web 2.0 that will set the stage for user content generation and how can a user share content across the Internet.
Without sounding too dramatic, shall this trial happen, this might be an inflection point of the Internet...
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