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Google's $1.65 billion purchase of video-sharing site YouTube catapults the search giant into the lead spot in the fast-growing online video market. It also creates a big, deep-pocketed target for aggrieved copyright owners.
While much of the content on YouTube consists of home-shot video, the site also contains copyright material that users...