Just to get it straight, [LWN.net]

Just to get it straight,

Posted Feb 9, 2007 15:16 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: FYI on "pirates" and "stealing" by iabervon
Parent article: Russian Schools to Switch to Linux After Microsoft Piracy Case (MosNews)

"Viacom alledgedly just recently stole somebody's software tutorial video,
in the sense of making false claims to be the rightful owner of it.
Technically, it's slander of title rather than larceny" -- no, it's
plagiarism. In law, slander of title is normally a claim involving real
estate in which one entity falsely claims to own another entity's
property. Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the
language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as
one's own original work.
To avoid any plagiarism accusations, the last two phrases are from the
current respective Wikipedia articles, as of 2006.02.09 13:15 GMT-02:00.

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Just to get it straight,

Posted Feb 9, 2007 17:27 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

You're clearly not seeing the allegations in this event. Viacom evidently sent youtube a DMCA notification, falsely claiming to own the tutorial video and requesting that it be removed. They never used the tutorial video or anything like it themselves, and may never have seen it. Slander of title related to IP is rarely mentioned, because usually people falsely claiming copyright ownership can be more straightfowardly demonstrated to have infringed it by distributing the work or something related.