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New to Netflix Originals, it’s The Good & The Bad Place… that’s where the subscription TV- and movie-streaming service finds itself this week. It now has 137m subscribers globally, growing by 7m in the three months...

British blockchain startup Jaak has plans to work with music rightsholders and collecting societies in the near future. But its first pilot is with a company outside the music industry: MTV’s parent company Viacom. Jaak...

“A short while into the song and a tingle in your robo-hands hands causes you to look down just in time to see them transform into cannon-hands that shoot out metallic kittens. Yes, you shoot metallic kittens from your...

Just weeks after This Is My Jam co-founder Hannah Donovan revealed she’s joining a new venture within Viacom, now her co-founder Matt Ogle is on the move too. “I’m joining Spotify in a product role overseeing their...

We’re very intrigued by a new venture within Viacom called Ripcord, which came to our attention yesterday when This Is My Jam co-founder Hannah Donovan announced she was joining the group. “Ripcord is a new creative technology...

Viacom has published some details of its latest research into US music fans’ habits, quizzing more than 1,200 13-40 year-olds on “the music experience in 2014”. Some of the key conclusions won’t be surprising –...

Viacom and Google settle long-running YouTube copyright lawsuit

A US court has ruled that media giant Viacom must pay $299m to the shareholders of games developer Harmonix.

In 2010, Viacom lost its $1bn copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube when a US judge ruled the pre-Google version of the site had been protected by the DMCA's safe harbour provisions. However, that original summary...

YouTube and Viacom's $1bn legal battle is well known, but an ongoing copyright infringement case involving rival video site Vimeo has been less widely reported

Viacom has launched a 'Artists.VH1' which is part online showcase for VH1-friendly artists and part a way to bring those artists onto its main channel.

Viacom has been hit with a further $300m bill on its 2006 acquisition of Rock Band producer Harmonix.