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...Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp. ; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc. ; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co. ; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th...

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...Nothing From the Experience [Voices] News, analysis and opinion about the digital revolution. Michael Fricklas, Viacom's (VIA.B) General Counsel, gave a lecture to a Yale Law class in which he confessed that suing people for copyright...

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...winner of Ukraine's disputed presidential election and took a symbolic oath of office. (He won a court-ordered revote in December 2004.) Viacom agreed to pay a record $3.5 million to settle dozens of government investigations into allegations...

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Michael Fricklas is Viacom's general counsel, the company's top lawyer. I can't tell if he actually felt bad when he said the above at a recent meeting with Yale Law students. I kind of feel an evil, dark smile inside. Even as part of a...

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...stick to the rules but we don't like seeing big companies beating on the little guy. Out now | GBPfree | Viacom (via Ars Technica) Viacom lawyer says suing illegal downloaders "feels like bullying" was originally published on...

In this article: Yale Law School, Ars Technica, MTV, YouTube, and Kanye West

NEW YORK (AP) - Viacom Inc. says it has won exclusive rights in the U.S. to air "Michael Jackson's This Is It" on its MTV and BET cable networks starting in 2011. The Sony Pictures film, featuring rehearsal footage from the London concerts...

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Viacom's cable networks win rights to Jackson film NEW YORK - Viacom Inc. says it has won exclusive rights in the U.S. to air "Michael Jackson's This Is It" on its MTV and BET cable networks starting in 2011. The Sony Pictures film,...

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...think so. MTV accounts for just 13% of Ariel's estimate of Viacom's value, according to Ariel's analysis of Viacom , released on Nov. 13. (Viacom is a holding in the Ariel Appreciation Fund.) And Viacom's filmed entertainment business...

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By Paul Thomasch Viacom Inc's quarterly profit rose 15 percent, breezing past expectations, as consumers set aside money worries to take in hit movies like "Transformers" and scoop up the new Beatles video game. Cost-cutting also helped...

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...Rock Band" boost results * Shares up less than 1 percent (Adds executive comments, byline) By Paul Thomasch Viacom Inc's <VIAb. N> quarterly profit rose 15 percent, breezing past expectations, as consumers set aside money worries...

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