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NEW YORK Viacom has issued a firm demand to YouTube, the video-sharing site, to immediately remove over 100,000 video clips featuring content from Viacom’s family of networks after the two companies failed to reach a workable content-sharing arrangement.
The clips, which Viacom said account for 1.2 billion video streams, range from short snippets to full-length episodes of shows from MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, among others.
Sources say the number of clips in question far exceeds the amount of content that Viacom asked YouTube to remove in October, when this dispute first arose.
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