Google Counters Viacom In The Washingtom Post

Google Managing Counsel Michael Kwun has a letter to the editor in today’s Washington Post, an on-the-mark rebuttal of a Viacom op-ed from last weekend. Google paints Viacom as an author of the DMCA who is no longer satisfied with the law it had pushed, and defends the DMCA as the only legitimate way to protect copyright on sites like YouTube.
Google’s best point: If Viacom screwed up in figuring out which videos YouTube needed to remove, how the hell did it expect Google to do it, and why are they suing Google for not doing something they couldn’t get right, something that the law they drafted says is Viacom’s responsibility. Great read, and great job fighting back. I would love to see Viacom try to beat this arguement in court.
Viacom is attempting to rewrite established copyright law through a baseless lawsuit. In February, after negotiations […]

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