Viacom open to working with Google in the future

Viacom is involved in a lawsuit against Google. They are claiming USD 1 billion from the search engine giant for copyright violation on their YouTube video sharing service.

However, Viacom Inc Chief Executive Philippe Dauman has now said in a statement that they are open to working with Google in the future.

Google recently launched some copy protection tools on the YouTube service. However, Viacom was not impressed and has plans to continue pursuing the lawsuit.

Dauman said in a statement: “I suspect at some point in the future we’ll work with Google.”

Viacom has now entered into a deal with Walt Disney Co, Microsoft Corp and other media companies to comply with guidelines on copyright.

Dauman added about Google: “Google is a very high-quality company. They can do things very quickly when they want to. I guess they haven’t wanted to until this point, but maybe they will want to in the future.”

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