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https://www.statista.com/statistics/273689/viacoms-annual-revenue/

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https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/almID/1202757705802/

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On March 13, 2007, Viacom filed a US$1 billion legal claim against google and YouTube alleging massive copyright infringement alleging that users frequently uploaded copyrighted material to YouTube—enough to cause a hit in revenue for Viacom and a gain in advertisement revenue for YouTube. The complaint contended that almost 160,000 unauthorised clips of Viacom's programming were made available on YouTube and that these clips had collectively been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

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Television production
Most notably, Viacom owns Nickelodeon, or Nick, an American television network that produces popular television shows for children and adolescents. It's most popular for producing both cartoons and live action shows, such as Spongebob Squarepants and Drake and Josh . The Nickelodeon Group produces content for multiple television channels. These include Nick, Nick2, Nick Jr., TeenNick, and Nicktoons. These also include the programming services Nick at Nite and NickSplat, which show reruns of popular shows from the 1980s and 1990s, like Full House and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air . Viacom also owns the Global Entertainment Group. This group owns the famous MTV TV channel, including its sister channels MTV2, MTV Classic and MTVU. MTV gained popularity in the 1980s for airing music videos. In recent years, the channel has scaled back on its music content and has focused on original reality, comedy and drama programs. Global Entertainment Group also produces content for Comedy Central. This channel was the first cable channel devoted to just comedy-based programming. It has aired popular shows like South Park, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show . Global Entertainment Group also creates programs for Spike, TV Land, VH1, Logo TV and CMT.
BET Networks is a division of Viacom that runs the Black Entertainment Television (BET) channel. In addition to creating original programs, BET Networks airs a variety of acquired television shows. It includes sitcoms, including Family Matters ; drama series, such as Scandal ; and late-night runs of talk shows, like The Wendy Williams Show .  Sister channels of BET include music TV channels, such as BET Gospel, BET Hip-Hop, BET International, BET Jams, and BET Soul.

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Paramount Motion Pictures Group
Paramount Pictures Corporation, or simply Paramount, is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California. This famous studio is the second oldest surviving studio in the U.S. Created in 1916 by film producer Adolph Zucker, Viacom bought the studio in 1994.
Paramount has produced hundreds of films over the last century, though some of the company's earliest work has been lost. The studio has produced film classes and such as The Godfather , Ferris Bueller's Day Off , and Titanic . It has also produced movies for popular franchises like Star Trek and Indiana Jones.
Paramount also produces movies through various division companies. These companies include features based on popular content from Viacom's popular television channels, such as Nickelodeon Movies, MTV Films, and Comedy Central Films.

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Viacom is a lot of things. Anthropomorphic sponges. Celebrities rocking on stage in a lip-sync duel. Talking upright turtles roaring through sewers wielding katana blades and nunchuks.

Another thing it is: home to a top-flight legal team, which is essential in bringing all this entertainment to your televisions and movie screens and smartphones all over the world. This is the group that (among many other things) manages talent contracts, protects the company’s intellectual property, and makes sure employees and brands and properties comply with a tangle of laws across more than 160 countries. This team is so good at doing all of these things that Corporate Counsel recently selected the department as one of only four on its best legal departments of 2016 list.

“It’s a great booster to us to be recognized this way,” says General Counsel Michael Fricklas. “We have a team that’s really passionate about seeing the company be successful.”

In order to best serve a globe-spanning multimedia company seated at the stormy heart of a rapidly changing industry, the department is constantly evolving.  Last year, the Paramount and VMN business and legal affairs team reorganized to make sure legal expertise moved out of silos and across entire business units, giving lawyers broader exposure and ensuring that experience could be more broadly applied across the studio and television channels. Department-wide task forces focus on wide-ranging topics, including managing outside counsel, diversity, litigation, automation, “the art and craft of the deal” and competition law. They have automated many workflows, including bill-paying and the tracking of deals and deal terms, and launched an online departmental portal to streamline daily collaboration that has become a model for other portals around the organization. The team brainstorms further efficiencies in regular meetings.

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Viacom follow the copyright firm called Digital Millennium Copyright Act Of 1998

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Entertainment giant Viacom, home to cable television networks such as MTV and Comedy Central, has taken its ongoing battle with Google's YouTube to federal court, suing the video Web site over what it calls "brazen" copyright violations.

Viacom, which is asking for $1 billion in damages, alleges that YouTube does little or nothing to prevent users from posting copyrighted videos on its site, largely because such popular videos -- including clips from Comedy Central's "South Park" and "The Colbert Report" and Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants" -- help drive viewers to the ads that appear on YouTube.

The suit, filed in federal court in New York, claims that 160,000 unlicensed Viacom clips have been viewed on YouTube more than 1.5 billion times. It also asks the court to issue an injunction preventing YouTube from posting additional material.

Google said yesterday that YouTube is operating within the law.

Digital copyright is a thorny and growing issue that stretches across the media and entertainment landscape. Traditional television and film companies have attempted to strike licensing deals with YouTube and its rivals for compensation when its clips are shown on the Web -- meeting with varying levels of success.

Companies such as Viacom realize there are promotional and audience-building advantages associated with exposure on sites like YouTube; links to the site are easily e-mailed and posted around the Internet. At the same time, however, without a revenue-share deal in place, the firms are not compensated for such use. When a video clip from "The Daily Show," for instance, has been viewed thousands of times on YouTube, that becomes an economic issue to Viacom.

"Defendants know and intend that a substantial amount of the content on the YouTube site consists of unlicensed infringing copies of copyrighted works and have done little or nothing to prevent this massive infringement," Viacom's complaint says. "To the contrary, the availability on the YouTube site of a vast library of the copyrighted works of plaintiffs and others is the cornerstone of defendants' business plan."

In addition to its cable television networks, Viacom owns Paramount Pictures, and it alleges that YouTube hosted copyrighted versions of Paramount's "An Inconvenient Truth."

In a statement, Google said, "We are confident that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders and believe the courts will agree."

The fight between the companies began last fall, when Viacom began pressuring YouTube to pull down copyrighted material. In October, YouTube said it was purging Comedy Central clips from its site. Last month, Viacom demanded that YouTube remove more than 100,000 clips of Viacom shows.

YouTube, which allows anyone to post video to the Web for viewing by a global audience, includes both amateur videos and clips produced by professionals, such as Viacom. The Web site was purchased by Google in October for $1.65 billion.

Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge, a Washington-based group advocating freer access to digital content, said Viacom's suit is a slap against its customers who want to watch Viacom content where they like.

"There should be a way for Viacom to monetize its content and compensate its artists, but this is not the way to do it," Sohn said.

Last month, Viacom agreed to license much of its content to Joost, a nascent YouTube rival.

Staff writer Sam Diaz contributed to this report.

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Sumner Redstone is the chairman of national amusements which also owns companies such CBS Corporation and Viacom

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Viacom a privately owned theatre company controlled by the billionaire Sumner Redstone

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/viacom

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http://www.viacom.com/

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New York Times report of Paramount Pictures and Viacom

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New York Times report of Paramount Pictures and Viacom

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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/business/media/paramount-plays-leading-role-in-battle-over-viacom.html

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https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-Viacom-EI_IE40260.11,17.htm

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http://www.adweek.com/tv-video/5-biggest-issues-facing-viacom-now-philippe-dauman-out-ceo-173076/

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http://deadline.com/2017/10/viacom-charter-communications-contract-impasse-warning-nickelodeon-comedy-central-mtv-1202186747/

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In February 2007, Viacom sent upwards of 100,000 digital millennium act takedown notices to the video-sharing site YouTube. Of the 100,000 notices, approximately 60–70 non-infringing videos were removed under the auspices of copyright infringement.[8]

In July 2008, the case generated controversy when District Judge Louis Stanton ruled that YouTube was required to hand over data detailing the viewing habits of every user who had ever watched videos on the site.[32] Judge Stanton rejected Viacom's request for YouTube to hand over the source code of its search engine system, saying that the code was a trade secret.[33] Google and Viacom later agreed to allow Google to anonymize all the data before handing it over to Viacom.[34]

On June 23, 2010, Judge Stanton ruled in Google's favor in a motion for summary judgment, holding that Google was protected by provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, notwithstanding evidence of intentional copyright infringement. Viacom announced its intention to appeal the ruling.[35]

On April 5, 2012, the ruling was overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.[36] Writing for a two-judge panel (because Judge Roger Miner had died while the trial was pending) of the Second Circuit, Judge José A. Cabranes concluded that "a reasonable jury could find that YouTube had actual knowledge or awareness of specific infringing activity on its website". Eric Goldman, a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, expressed concern that the ruling would negatively affect startups, by making them "more hair-trigger on taking down news or content, for fear that failure to do so will be held against them by content providers".[37]

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Viacom also allow people to invest at any opportunity  and theres different types of investments

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Viacom own a wide variety of companies such as Nickelodeon, MTV, Paramount pictures, Comedy Central, BET, Time warner, NBCUniversal, Comcast, Dreamworks, 20th Century Fox, CBS Corporation, Lionsgate, NBC an s few more. apparently Viacom owns over 500 digital media properties.

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Viacom was founded on the 3rd of may in 1971

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Viacoms revenue is $12.488 billion

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Viacom is owned by National Amusements

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There are 10,580 employed for Viacom, this is considered a very large employment scale but is also