YouTube and Google are currently engaged in a $1 billion lawsuit with Viacom. But are media companies getting their knickers in a twist for nothing? According to a study by Vidmeter.com, less than 10 percent of YouTube's most popular videos belong to copyright owners that want them to be removed.
The study measured the site's most-watched video clips between December and March, and found that less than 10 percent of YouTube's 6,725 most popular videos ended up being removed for copyright infringement. Views of these videos accounted for less than 6 percent of most-popular views.
However, companies holding copyrights say that Vidmeter's methodology is flawed, claiming that the study only accounts for those clips that were taken down, and doesn't consider copyrighted videos which have gone unnoticed and remain on the site.
