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Google Inc.’s YouTube didn’t violate Viacom Inc. copyrights when content, including clips from its MTV and Comedy Central cable-television channels, were posted on the video-sharing website, a judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton in New York said YouTube wasn’t liable for infringement. Viacom, controlled by Sumner Redstone, had sought at least $1 billion in damages, according to a revised complaint filed in April 2008.
Stanton agreed with YouTube that it was protected by the safe-harbor provision of the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which says a service provider isn’t liable for infringement if it removes material from its site when notified by the copyright owner.
