After a three year war, Google triumphed over Viacom on Wednesday as a federal court ruled that Google's YouTube subsidiary is not liable for its users' copyright infringements. A U.S. district court in New York ruled that YouTube is covered by a "safe harbor" clause in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which protects service providers from penalties for their users' copyright violations, as long as they address those violations once they are made aware of them.
The ruling comes after a years-long battle over copyright infringement. Viacom even devoted an entire section of its online newsroom to the legal fight. Viacom's position was that Google bought YouTube knowing full well that the site was guilty of copyright infringement but turned a blind eye. It was asking for damages of $1 billion.
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