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Google CEO: Media divided over online video


March 07, 2007 NEW YORK-- Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the Internet giant continues to pursue deals that will let it show copyrighted videos on YouTube, but suggested old and new media remain far apart in how they view the emerging business of online video. Google's YouTube has inked a few content deals, most recently with Britain's British Broadcasting Corp. But despite the video-sharing site's growing popularity, it has struggled to forge such agreements with large media companies, many of whom have alleged copyright infringement. According to press reports, NBC has also written to Google, demanding unauthorized material be kept off the YouTube site.

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