Viacoms Legal Strategy Fails to Impress Courts: Youtube and Google Victorious
May 1, 2013
In the article Youtube Wins Yet Another Complete Victory over Viacom; Court Mocks Viacom’s Ridiculous Legal Theories on Techdirt, the sweeping victory of Google and YouTube in the ruling delivered on April 18 is discussed. Viacom’s entire legal strategy was dismissed out of hand, their attempts to place burden of proof on YouTube and dispel safe harbor laws were rejected. The article summarizes the courts ruling as follows,
“Basically, Viacom has wasted an incredible amount of money on a massive lawsuit based on a very, very shaky premise that the court didn’t buy the first time around… This was the crux of Viacom’s argument. That because they could show a lot of infringement, and here and there point to some evidence that some people at YouTube might have known of general infringement, then the burden should be on YouTube. But the court clearly calls them on this”
Calling Viacom’s argument to be both “extravagant” and “Ingenious” in turn, the court has granted summary judgment to Googe/ Youtube. We have to note, Google is on a roll with Youtube.
Chelsea Kerwin, May 01, 2013
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