Google has in the United States, a lawsuit won of Viacom regarding copyright. The court ruled that YouTube, which Google owns, is not responsible for copyright violations of users.
Viacom had a lawsuit filed because there is with copyright protected material had appeared on the video site of Google, as appears from rechtbankdocumenten that online are placed. Earlier the court ruled already that YouTube cannot be held liable could be, but Viacom appealed the ruling. In addition, the multimedia company so again, to be in the wrong.
According to Viacom should YouTube be held liable for the copyright violations on the video site. The company claims that Google and YouTube knew of the infringing videos, but the judge says that this not could be proven. This is Google under the ‘safe harbour’provision of the DMCA law in the United States, which states that providers cannot be held responsible for the actions of their users. However, Google needs to occur as soon as the of copyright violations are notified.
In 2010, the first judgment, in Youtubes favor, already taking place. Last year, decided the judge, however, that Viacom parent company, Google again allowed to sue. Initially demanded by Viacom a billion dollars in compensation.