Lessons Learned from Viacom’s $1 Billion Suit Against YouTube—Baker Hostetler’s Jerry Ferguson

The Second Circuit recently reinstated Viacom’s massive suit against YouTube, a case that goes all the way back to 2007. Because the case is so old, Viacom’s copyright infringement claims really apply just to the YouTube of that time period, around 2005 and 2005, not the more mature company we see now. That said, there are many companies out there who survive on protection under the DMCA that aren’t too dissimilar to the YouTube of yesteryear. To explain lessons these companies might learn from this Viacom/Youtube tiff, we bring back See more +

The Second Circuit recently reinstated Viacom’s massive suit against YouTube, a case that goes all the way back to 2007. Because the case is so old, Viacom’s copyright infringement claims really apply just to the YouTube of that time period, around 2005 and 2005, not the more mature company we see now. That said, there are many companies out there who survive on protection under the DMCA that aren’t too dissimilar to the YouTube of yesteryear. To explain lessons these companies might learn from this Viacom/Youtube tiff, we bring back Baker Hostetler partner Jerry Ferguson, author on their Data Privacy Monitor. See less -