You may have seen on blogs and online news forums lately that Youtube released their defence in the Viacom litigation. Dr Matthew Rimmer presents a fantastic overview of the current state of play in this op-ed piece.

A copy of the response from YouTube/Google, filed at the District Court is located here.

Viacom claims that "YouTube has deliberately chosen not to take reasonable precautions to deter the rampant infringement on its site" (see op-ed piece above). Interestingly, on the other side of the coin, 100's of clips from The Chaser's War on Everything were removed from YouTube after a 15 year old boy (claiming to represent the copyright owners) sent a fake takedown notice (read more here and here). Evidently Viacom should save money on lawyers and start investing in an army of high school students.

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