"My footage is represented online by two major stock-footage companies. And I license it for all sorts of projects and uses, from commercials to broadcast to co

"My footage is represented online by two major stock-footage companies. And I license it for all sorts of projects and uses, from commercials to broadcast to corporate films," said Mr Bloom. "A fair amount of my footage has been licensed for internal use only, so to hear Google not state that they will compensate me for its use is very surprising. The footage was licensed for internal use, and Google has presumably paid for that. The contention arises because the video was leaked; in the film maker’s view, he should be compensated because it is not internal anymore and thus breaks the usage agreement. If Google has purposefully published the video, that’d be a very easy ruling to make in favor of the videographer; but the fact that it was leaked will make this an interesting case to follow.