The agreement comes as Google supplementary YouTube is locked in a copyright-infringement lawsuit $ 1 billion of Paramount parent company Viacom.

Google has an agreement to license with Paramount Pictures to more than 500 films to study the play of Google and YouTube in the U.S. and Canada reached, said the giant Internet search Wednesday.

The rental is available now, although some tracks will be added in the coming months. The agreement swells Google library movie rental than 9,000 films.

"Paramount Pictures is one of the major movie studios on the planet. We are thrilled to about 500 of their films to film fans in the U.S. and Canada at Play YouTube and Google bring," said Malik Ducard, director of content partnerships at YouTube, said in a statement.

Paramount's conclusion to associate with Google may strike some as odd, though, because Google's subsidiary YouTube is blocked in a copyright breach lawsuit $ 1 billion of Paramount parent company Viacom. The case, first introduced as YouTube rose to fame in 2006, claiming that YouTube consciously permitted watching episodes of copyrighted television shows like South Park and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the website. Viacom has entered a judgment in summary proceedings in favor of Google.

Possibly for that cause, Paramount had been fairly of a holdout amid the Hollywood studios when it comes to making movie deals with the YouTube parent. Google already has similar agreements with Warner Brothers, Disney, Universal, Sony signed and extra than 10 autonomous film companies.