Viacom's General Counsel Lecture On Copyright Leaves Out Certain...

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 11/17/2009 - 12:12

Someone once told me that Viacom's top lawyer, Michael Fricklas, has been known to read Techdirt on occasion.

I have no idea if this is true, but it still is interesting to watch him give a lecture to some Yale law students where he offers a somewhat nuanced position on copyright issues (thanks to JJ for being the first of many to forward the video to us), but which repeatedly seems to leave out certain pertinent facts: He starts...

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