A first victory against Viacom Google

While Google has scored a first victory in the case between it and its subsidiary YouTube to Viacom. Indeed in spring 2007, the U.S. media group (MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central, etc..), Had filed lawsuits against Google claiming disseminated without permission of content owned by their respective video services. Among the content in question include the show The Daily Show With Jon Stewart or South Park cartoons and SpongeBob SquarePants.

For its part Google says not to have impeded the law protecting the intellectual property rights (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). In fact, Viacom had not sent enough information about each of the barriers. It's really about this argument that the court judge ruled in favor of Google. He believes that this is not Google, which ranks as qu'hébergeur, finding the offending videos. The judge said that in February 2007 Viacom has sent Google a detailed list of 100,000 videos, an initiative that resulted in the withdrawal of the latter in 48 hours.

Satisfied with the verdict, Kent Walker, Vice President and General Counsel for Google, said: "This is an important victory, not only for ourselves but for billions of people around the world who use the web to communicate and share content" . In turn Viacom considers that the decision contradicts strong laws to protect authors arranged by the United States Congress and the recent past cases before the Supreme Court. The group is expected to appeal the decision.