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What will come of the Viacom v. YouTube suit?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

   Computer hard drive. (Image from Pacific Northwest Laboratory's website). Even my most well-heeled litigation clients set a ceiling on the money they are willing to spend for litigation fees and expenses. One thing that interests me in the pending Viacom, et al. v. YouTube, et al. (S.D.N.Y. 1:07-cv-02103) copyright infringement litigation is the higher quantums of litigation funds being spent by those litigants than by my litigation clients and the extent to which those funds are being spent wisely or not.  Ordinarily, a huge publicly-traded corporation will hire a heavily-staffed law firm or team of lawyers to pursue its high-stakes civil litigation, in part out of anticipation that the opponent will do the same and in part because the selected law firm may already be doing a big chunk of the corporation's legal work...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).