{"id":188976,"date":"2010-06-23T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/23\/viacom-case-against-google-thrown-out\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T02:19:00","slug":"viacom-case-against-google-thrown-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/23\/viacom-case-against-google-thrown-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Viacom Case Against Google Thrown Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The judge said that the safe harbor provision of the DMCA indemnifies Google, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-31001_3-20008636-261.html?tag=nl.e498\">granted Google&#8217;s motion for summary judgement, and dismissed Viacom&#8217;s lawsuit against Google\/Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is the fact that Viacom was itself posting illegal material to Youtube as a pretext for the lawsuit had a lot to do with this.<\/p>\n<p>I will note that the author, Greg Sandoval quoted an &#8220;expert&#8221; from the libertarian group the PFF saying that it would be overturned without noting that both litigants funded the organization.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just sloppy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judge said that the safe harbor provision of the DMCA indemnifies Google, and granted Google&#8217;s motion for summary judgement, and dismissed Viacom&#8217;s lawsuit against Google\/Youtube. My guess is the fact that Viacom was itself posting illegal material to Youtube as a pretext for the lawsuit had a lot to do with this. I will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,974,1109,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-hack-journalism","category-ip","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}