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Looks like legitimate discovery to me

Looks like legitimate discovery to me

Posted Jul 6, 2008 7:04 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Looks like legitimate discovery to me by jwb
Parent article: Notes on the Viacom ruling

Evidently Viacom thinks it will be helped if it can prove that most of YouTube's business in the early days was based on copyright violation. But that doesn't seem to address the "safe harbor" provision of the DMCA, which puts the burden on the copyright owner to issue takedown requests.


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