Google (YouTube) Prevails Against $1B Copyright Infringement Claim
The sound you heard today was a collective sigh of relief from entrepreneurs and corporate executives across the globe that have built business models around user-generated content. Google has, at least for the moment, successfully defended the “YouTube model” against claims that it promotes copyright infringement. Google’s defense was based primarily on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”), which protects online service providers from liability for copyright infringement based on content uploaded by users as long as they meet the conditions for the statutory “safe harbor”.
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