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Google In Better Position In the Copyright Lawsuit against Viacom
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It was back in March 2007 that Viacom had filed a lawsuit against the search-engine giant Google, over copyright infringement. In the lawsuit that was filed against YouTube and its parent company, Google, Viacom had claimed that more than 150,000 unauthorized clips have been viewed for an astonishing 1.5 billion times.
A month later, Viacom sued Google for $1 billion, after claiming that several of its popular shows, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, South Park and MTV Unplugged, are illegally shown on YouTube.
Eventually, Manhattan district judge Louis Stanton announced the verdict in the favor of Google (Youtube). This means that the Google does not have to turn over the code to Viacom.
The entire lawsuit was based on the platform set by DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) Title II, i.e. Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act.
This is was the judge had to say on this, “YouTube and Google should not be made to place this vital asset in hazard merely to allay speculation. A plausible showing that YouTube and Google’s denials are false, and that the search function can and has been used to discriminate in favor of infringing content, should be required before disclosure of so valuable and vulnerable an asset is compelled.”
This might sound a little unfair on the side of Viacom, given the fact that the videos actually belong to Viacom and only because YouTube content is user-controlled, does not make them a YouTube property.
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Also, YouTube launched an anti piracy tool that checks uploaded videos against the original content in an effort to flag piracy immediately after the suit.
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