Google responds to Viacom lawsuit against YouTube
May 1st, 2007 Leave a comment Visited 31 times, 1 so far today
Google responds to Viacom lawsuit against YouTube
Google acquired YouTube.com and since then has faced potential lawsuits from the media companies who continues to claim that the video sharing service is a home for copyrighted videos violating their rights.
Viacom is behind the largest lawsuit filed against the web’s most popular video sharing service and Google has now responded to the lawsuit.
Google said that the YouTube’s activities are perfectly legal and they respect the importance of copyrights and goes above and beyond what is required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The DMCA act gives Web hosts protection from copyright lawsuits so long as they comply with requests to remove unauthorized material.
Google said that YouTube allows content owners to alert them about the copyrighted videos hosted on the service and they take immediate action to take them down.
Viacom in their lawsuit had claimed that YouTube used their technology to “willfully infringe copyrights on a huge scale”.
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