Google is looking to defend itself in a $1bn court battle by calling American TV stars Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as witnesses, it has emerged.
According to documents filed in a New York district court, Stewart - host of the popular satirical news programme The Daily Show - and his colleague Colbert are on a list of witnesses for deposition in the case brought by their employer, Viacom.
The billion-dollar lawsuit, filed last year by the company which owns MTV and Comedy Central, accuses Google's videosharing website, YouTube, of encouraging users to pirate copyrighted material.
It is the first major action brought against the site since it was bought by Google in 2005 for $1.65bn.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/15/google.youtube?gusrc=rss&feed=technology
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