New York - Media conglomerate Viacom on Friday asked Google's YouTube video-sharing site to remove over 100,000 copyrighted clips from Viacom properties including MTV, Comedy Central and BET.

"After months of ongoing discussions with YouTube and Google, it has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom content available to YouTube users," Viacom said in a statement.

"Filtering tools promised repeatedly by YouTube and Google have not been put in place, and they continue to host and stream vast amounts of unauthorized video."

YouTube's policy is to remove copyrighted clips when asked by copyright holders. The company has also said it plans to implement a filter to block copyrighted clips from being posted to its site.

"YouTube and Google retain all of the revenue generated from this practice, without extending fair compensation to the people who have expended all of the effort and cost to create it," Viacom said. "The recent addition of YouTube-served content to Google Video Search simply compounds this issue."

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