Public Knowledge Statement on Viacom v YouTube Appellate Decision
Public Knowledge Statement on Viacom v YouTube Appellate Decision
Public Knowledge Statement on Viacom v YouTube Appellate Decision

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    The U.S.
    Appeals Court for the Second Circuit (New York) today handed down its ruling in
    Viacom v. YouTube. The ruling is
    here.

    The following
    is attributed to Sherwin Siy, deputy legal director for Public Knowledge:

    “We are
    pleased with the Appeals Court ruling. The Court upheld the basic principles of the Digital Millennium
    Copyright Act (DMCA). Crucially,
    the Court rejected Viacom’s attempt to create a new duty of those hosting
    content to monitor actively for infringement in order to qualify
    for the law’s safe-harbor provisions. The Court upheld the need for knowledge of specific instances of
    infringement in the DMCA, and that a general awareness of possible infringement
    is not sufficient.”