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"The Viacom copyright infringement case against Google and YouTube has  been a long strange journey since it started, but it looks like the  first major chapter is over: the federal court today ruled that Google  falls under the \"safe harbor\" provision of the DMCA which protects  service providers from liability for user content. Roughly, that means  Google isn't liable for copyright infringement on YouTube in general:  it can only be liable for infringing specific copyrighted works, and  since YouTube pulls videos as soon as anyone complains, it can't get in  trouble. Of course, Viacom isn't too happy about this decision and has  vowed to  appeal, but we think it makes sense -- otherwise Viacom could sue and  win for things Google didn't even know about, like, say, the music  videos Viacom employees covertly  uploaded themselves and then demanded be removed. We'll see what  happens -- in the meantime, we'll be celebrating by watching as much  YouTube as possible."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/google-wins-youtube-copyright-case-against-viacom/>