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Google rejects Viacom's copyright claims
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By Meenakshi Shankar
TMCnet Contributing Writer
Responding to the law suit filed by entertainment giant Viacom, Google today rejected claims that it allows copyright violated content on its popular YouTube (News - Alert).com video site.
In February, Viacom warned YouTube for hosting host Viacom videos on its site without their permission, requesting that 100,000 of its clips be removed. Google (News - Alert) rejected Viacom’s copyright claims, requesting a jury trial and planning to defend against Viacom.
Viacom owns Comedy Central, MTV, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, and VH1.
In its defense, Google cites the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which has safe protected provisions relieving carriers and hosting providers from responsibility for copyright offenses as long as they remove the material.
"By seeking to make carriers and hosting providers liable for Internet communications, Viacom's complaint threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic expression," Google said in a statement.
Google, which completed its $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube in November, said it provides tools for copyright holders to find their material and uses technology to prevent videos from being reposted after they have been removed.
Viacom has contended that YouTube and Google have failed to deliver efficient filtering tools, which has lead to huge amounts of unauthorized Viacom video existing on the video-sharing site, and filed suit in March.
Meenakshi Shankar is a contributing writer for TMCnet.
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