NBC, Viacom Support New Copyright Suit Against YouTube

The battle between Google Inc.and traditional media companies intensified, as NBC Universal and Viacom Inc. agreed to support a copyright lawsuit brought against the Internet giant's YouTube video site. This is the first time that NBC, part of General Electric Co., has taken a legal stand against what media companies say are YouTube's copyright infringements on a mass scale.

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