Google Cleaning Up YouTube Mess
Google is planning on fixing their on-going issues with Viacom once and for all by finally having the content-fingerprinting technology they’ve been working on, up and running on YouTube by September. This will supposedly resolve the issues regarding the Viacom copyright infringement case that has been dragging on for eons now.
Attorney for Viacom Donald Verrilli said that the company is pleased with the initiative, but does not believe that the new technology is all Google will need to do. “We’d have been a lot happier if they’d put this in place when they launched,” said Verrilli.
He continued that the video-sharing site had a responsibility to track copyrighted material from the beginning as it is not only illegal, but the site gains profit from said material. “They have built a business on this infringement,” he said.
Google attorney, Philip Beck has been sticking to Google’s main argument that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s “fair harbor” provisions protect the company from copyright infringement, adding that the case is more complicated than simple copyright infringement.
Phil Beck of Bartlit Beck is considered one of the nation’s top trial lawyers, having represented the current-President Bush in 2000 in Florida during the election and the pharmaceutical company Merck during the Vioxx litigation. David Kramer of Wilson Sonsini is also on Google’s team.
The firms are expected to be reconvening in court on August 6th in New York City.
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