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Viacom seeking a compromise with YouTube?
Joe Nocera discusses the suit by Viacom against YouTube and its owner, Google, for copyright infringement link here. It is a pretty good run down, but main-stream-media's requirement for balance forces it to avoid a clear conclusion that YouTube has complied with the take-down requests from Viacom as provided in the DMCA-–and instead seems to leave the case up to the discretion of the judge. That allows Nocera to conclude that there will be a compromise. But it seems to me that the only way that Viacom can win is to get the DCMA changed and that may be their real objective.
[Posted at 03/17/2007 08:57 AM by John Bennett on IP in the News 
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I am not sure that Viacom has to change the DMCA. For YouTube to be protected, it must satisfy certain requirements to gain "safe harbor" under the DMCA. Posted here are the requriements http://moonsview.blogspot.com/2007/03/viacom-vs-youtube.html
I am not sure that YouTube qualifies for safe harbor.
[Comment at 03/17/2007 04:37 PM by RandomThoughts]
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