Google Responds to Viacom's Lawsuit
In the past days, Viacom proceeded with a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the search giant "intentionally" allows users to post copyrighted material on its YouTube website.
As a respond Google's lawyers indicated that Google has a very strong legal stance against Viacom's claims. Under current copyright laws, Google indicated that it was well protected.
The general counsel of Google, Alexander Macgillivray, said that the company's actions are within the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). "Here there is a law which is specifically designed to give Web hosts such as us, or... bloggers or people that provide photo-album hosting online ... the 'safe harbor' we need in order to be able to do hosting online.".
"We will continue to innovate and continue to host material for people, without being distracted by this suit," continued Macgillivray. Google previously won in a case involving similar copyright issues where it won based on safe harbor protection and other grounds.
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