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US$ 33.405 billion (2011) [ 4 ] US$ 0 4.537 billion (2011) [ 4 ] US$ 0 2.739 billion (2011) [ 4 ] US$ 61.980 billion (2011) [ 4 ] US$ 29.506 billion (2011) [ 4 ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation
Viacom (short for VI sual & A udio COM munications), stylized as VIACOM in its latest logo, was an American media conglomerate. It was the owner of CBS , Nickelodeon and MTV , among others. Effective December 31, 2005, this corporate entity changed its name to CBS Corporation .

Viacom (1971–2005) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act#Viacom_Inc._v._YouTube.2C_Google_Inc. Full title To amend title 17, United States Code, to implement the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty and Performances and Phonograms Treaty, and for other purposes. Committee consideration by: House Judiciary Committee (Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property); House Commerce Committee (Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection) Reported by the joint conference committee on October 8, 1998; agreed to by the Senate on October 8, 1998 ({{{passedvote3}}}) and by the House on October 12, 1998 (voice vote) The Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA ) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States copyright law , fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test .

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Keith Rupert Murdoch , AC , KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an American media mogul . He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation , the world's second-largest media conglomerate . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Born in Australia, Murdoch became managing director of News Limited , inherited from his father, in 1953. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] In the 1950s and '60s, he acquired various newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World followed closely by The Sun .

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