Viacom denied Google search code in copyright battle
07 July 2008
Eileen McDermott, New York
A New York federal court judge has denied Viacom’s and other plaintiffs’ motions requesting that YouTube and Google produce key source code related to the websites’ search function in the copyright case against the two internet sites
In March 2007, Viacom filed a suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that Google and YouTube “promote and profit from massive copyright infringement of television programs and feature films on an unprecedented scale involving hundreds of thousands of pirated clips”. Google claims that it is protected against the allegations by the safe harbour provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). As part of the discovery process in the case, Viacom and The Football Association Premier League Limited, which has also filed suit against the companies, moved jointly to compel Google and YouTube to produce various electronically stored...
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