Sorry I didn't follow this thread sooner. Am applying for jobs. In any case, from what I remember, Viacom is a french parent company, and they purchased (whether or not still run --??) Paramount and Simon and Schuster in the 90s. So you can see that, as a company heavily involved in early telecoms/inet AND owning a movie studio AND a major publishing house, they may be seeking to act against certain sorts of video streaming, especially that on You Tube (which is owned by Google now) and Vimeo, etc. And apparently they are doing it differently from Disney.
I would press Viacom for detailed written comment on your particular case, and then consider a formal response to circulate (if it is, as I suspect, an exercise of a new policy). For example, I'm sure the You Tube policy includes right to terminate at any time, but you are saying Viacom claim a copyright issue. FYI, I just got a new terms of use -- change in privacy policy -- from SONY today... All best, Catherine Daly _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
