It has been reported that on Thursday, Viacom released further documents in its lawful conflict with YouTube. This was condemning Google of making a planned attempt to profit from copyright violation and force copyright owners into licensing agreements.

Viacom was charged by Youtube, for pulling a media stunt instead of presenting anything novel.

Last month, many of these details were publicized when both companies released their opening briefs in the case. This battle has been on since March 2007, when Viacom filed a $1 billion patent violation case against YouTube.

Schmidt was asked if Google workers had ever shown worry that a pre-Google YouTube was opposing unjustly by hosting copyrighted content.

He said, "I don't recall. I mean, I may – someone may have said something, but it would have been in general terms. It wouldn't have been with the specificity of your question. I recall complaints about YouTube having different policies, but not specific in the way you asked your question”.

Google asserts that YouTube is secured by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and says that it reacts to all takedown requests.

After the YouTube acquirement, Google and Viacom discussed a potential content agreement, which was confirmed by Schmidt in the deposition, but failed to come to compliance.

According to Viacom, when the deal fell through, Google declined to take up filtering technology on Viacom-owned videos, prompting the court case.