Google Blasts Viacom Over Lawsuit
Elise Ackerman writes on The Mercury News:
A lawsuit filed against Google by Viacom, the New York entertainment giant, threatens the way hundreds of millions of people exchange information on the Internet, Google asserted in legal documents filed this evening.More here.
Viacom, which owns MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, sued Google in March in U.S. District Court in New York for copyright infringement "on a massive scale" after requesting that the Mountain View Internet colossus remove more than 100,000 videos from YouTube.
In an 11-page response to Viacom, Google said Viacom's suit "challenges the careful balance established by Congress when it enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
The 1998 law, known as the DMCA, creates a so-called "safe harbor" for Internet companies that host content, protecting them from lawsuits provided they immediately take down material after they are notified that it infringes on a copyright.
posted by Fergie @ 4/30/2007 05:55:00 PM
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