01.07.2008
Viacom
Sues YouTube for $1 Billion
You Tube was faithful to the requirements
of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the federal law was intended
to protect companies like YouTube as long as they responded properly to content
owners' claims of infringement. In a rewritten lawsuit filed last month, Viacom
said YouTube consistently allows unauthorized copies of popular television programming
and movies to be posted on its Web site and viewed tens of thousands of times.
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