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In this week’s 4MR podcast I consider the ruling in the YouTube vs. Viacom court case, with the judge essentially throwing out Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit. The judge believed that YouTube followed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s “safe harbor” provision, taking down videos that violated copyrights when the copyright holder gave it a take-down notice. Viacom said it would appeal the decision while YouTube called it a strike for content-sharing sites on the web. I talked to MediaShift legal correspondent Rob Arcamona to get his take.
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Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:
Google Wins Key Copyright Ruling at Wall Street Journal
How the YouTube-Viacom Ruling Will Set the Web Free at the Atlantic
Four Copyright Lessons From Google’s Viacom Victory at Forbes
Will video sites stop filtering content? at Hollywood Reporter
YouTube’s legal victory supports Internet service providers at International Business Times
Reacting to the YouTube-Viacom Case That Isn’t Over Yet at The Big Money
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Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.
4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.