How Google Beat Viacom in the Landmark YouTube Copyright Case — Again
“The ruling is a great victory for YouTube,” Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law, told TIME. “The judge emphatically rejected all of Viacom’s arguments, as well as its spin on the facts. Given that Viacom has made no real progress in this case after 6 years of litigating, the judge’s ruling reinforces how the entire lawsuit has been a waste of time and resources for everyone concerned.”
And what resources have been wasted?
“At this point, I don’t have any idea why Viacom continues to press its point,” Goldman said. “I guess copyright owners are persistent. By 2010, Google had already spent $100 million defending this case. Lord knows how many more millions of dollars the parties have spent since then.”
Bet the artists are loving this.