Google responded to the accusations against the corporation Viacom YouTube
The company Google, as reported by Associated Press, in documents sent to the District Court of Manhattan, responded to the charges against the corporation Viacom videoservisa popular YouTube.
Disagreements between YouTube and Viacom have emerged in 2006. According to Viacom, on a site owned by Google videohostinga were published tens of thousands of illegal copies of materials that belong to the right of Viacom. In March last year, Viacom filed in court on Google and YouTube, accusing them of "intentionally scale copyright infringement" and demanding payment of one billion dollars in compensation.
As now proclaim in Google, YouTube service clearly holds a law on copyright in the digital era (DMCA) and performs all the requirements of copyright owners about removing illegal materials. At the same time, according to statements made by Google, Viacom lawsuit against YouTube videoservisa jeopardizes common, in which millions of users legally share information through the network.
Representatives of Viacom, however, argue that Google and YouTube did very little or even nothing to prevent the appearance of the site videohostinga copies of pirated videos. As a result, illegal copies of television shows and movies in times of times published on YouTube.
Incidentally, it is worth adding that last fall under pressure from rights holders Google introduced on the YouTube site filtration system to secure copyrighted content. Funds YouTube Video Identification allow identification of copyright-protected clips, after which the owner can prohibit or downloading materials or authorize their publication, while earning profits from advertising.
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