Google Gets Two More Months To Hand Over YouTube Documents to Viacom

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Google Gets Two More Months To Hand Over YouTube Documents to Viacom

Mon Feb 25, 2008 @ 10:57AM PST

Posted by Eriq Gardner

YoutubeLawyers for Viacom and Google were back in court this morning for a hearing in Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit for copyright infringement on YouTube.

The case is closely watched by all, but everyone is going to have to wait a bit longer for the trial to begin. The judge in the case just extended the March 7 discovery deadline by two more months. Google's lawyers had originally requested a 3-month extension as they pour through 4.5 million documents. Someone should teach them how to use search technology.

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