YouTube Paramount Deal Offers Hugo, Godfather, Transformers and More
Google announced this morning that YouTube’s rental service will now offer movies from Paramount — one of Viacom’s premier studios. The deal will have YouTube offering movies such as the Huge, the Godfather trilogy and Transformers to the slate, and will certainly make YouTube a more powerful video service in the future. This certainly shows that Google is pushing hard to create a complete library of entertainment, perhaps to sweeten the Google TV offer for prospective buyers — imagine your Google TV came with these movies free for a month.
The surprise here is that Viacom and Google are actually engaged in a legal battle in which Viacom has accused Google of “copyright infringement”.
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