{"id":623929,"date":"2010-01-07T16:39:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/07\/is-the-youtube-case-finally-ready-to-start-moving-again-mediamemo\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T16:39:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:39:58","slug":"is-the-youtube-case-finally-ready-to-start-moving-again-mediamemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/623929","title":{"rendered":"Is the YouTube Case Finally Ready to Start Moving Again? [MediaMemo]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Nearly three years after Viacom (VIA) first sued Google (GOOG) over copyright infringement, the case may finally be ready to start moving again. Both sides have asked a federal court for summary judgment, which means there&#8217;s an opportunity for the legal system to actually make a decision in what could be a landmark case.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides filed the requests, which have been expected for sometime, at the end of last month. Which means that years of <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20100104\/oh-my-god-they-still-havent-deposed-kenny\/?mod=ATD_sphere\">laborious discovery and depositions<\/a> have come to a close.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much to the filings themselves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google&#8217;s document reiterates its initial argument. The search giant says that it doesn&#8217;t knowingly store or play copyrighted clips on the site, and if it does, it&#8217;s protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It also cites last fall&#8217;s ruling in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20090914\/universal-music-gets-slapped-in-court-what-does-that-mean-for-veoh-and-youtube\/\">Veoh\/Universal Music Group case<\/a>, in which a court ruled in favor of the video sharing site.<\/li>\n<li>Viacom&#8217;s document reiterates its initial argument, which is that Google and YouTube knew what they were doing and profited from it, which means the DMCA doesn&#8217;t protect them . And perhaps it says\u00a0 something more interesting. Hard to tell, since US District Court judge Louis Stanton has redacted more than a page of the document, as you can see here:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/86757_Viacom-redacted.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14884\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/86757_Viacom-redacted.png?resize=350%2C434\" alt=\"Viacom redacted\" width=\"350\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWonder what that says? Me too.<\/p>\n<p>Viacom filing:<br \/>\n<a title=\"View Via 1710 on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/24916554\/Via-1710\">Via 1710<\/a> <br \/>\nGoogle filing:<br \/>\n<a title=\"View Goog1710 on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/24916520\/Goog1710\">Goog1710<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20100107\/is-the-youtube-case-finally-ready-to-start-moving-again\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three years after Viacom (VIA) first sued Google (GOOG) over copyright infringement, the case may finally be ready to start moving again. Both sides have asked a federal court for summary judgment, which means there&#8217;s an opportunity for the legal system to actually make a decision in what could be a landmark case. 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