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Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc.
On June 23, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision effectively granting blanket immunity to website operators who tolerate and profit from copyright infringement. In Viacom International v. YouTube, the district court granted summary judgment for YouTube and held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA) shielded YouTube from liability, even while conceding that a jury could very well find that YouTube and Google knew about and tolerated copyright infringement (and that they generated profit from the infringement). The ruling was a setback for WLF, which filed a brief in the case arguing that Congress intended the DMCA to establish a regime of shared responsibility on the part of both copyright owners and Internet service providers to police infringement and rigorously enforce intellectual property rights.
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