Google/Youtube vs Viacom
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Mar 14th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Recently updated from InformationWeek
“Google Inc. is confident its popular video-sharing site YouTube and other Web services Google offers have strong legal protections under current copyright* law, company attorneys said Tuesday.
Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. ended six months of thinly veiled threats of legal action against YouTube earlier Tuesday with a $1 billion lawsuit that accuses Google and YouTube of “massive intentional copyright infringement.”
But Google and YouTube lawyers said their actions are squarely within the protections offered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 and they were prepared to defend the company aggressively. “
*Copyright law states : The legal ownership of a “work,” which can take any of the following forms: written text, program source code, graphics images, sculpture, music, sound recording, motion picture, pantomime, choreograph and architecture. Before January 1, 1978, a work had to be published to be copyrighted. After that date, any work expressed in paper or electronic form is automatically copyrighted for the life of the author plus 70 years. Registration with the Copyright Office is not required, although it is beneficial if there are disputes later on. In the U.S., a copyright symbol is not mandatory, but recommended. ” – Definition from TechWeb
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