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Google: YouTube Suit Hurts Freedom
Google‘s lawyers made the claim in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan as the company responded to Viacom Inc.’s latest lawsuit alleging that the Internet has led to “an explosion of copyright infringement” by YouTube and others.
The back-and-forth between the companies has intensified since Viacom brought its lawsuit last year, saying it was owed damages for the unauthorized viewing of its programming from MTV, Comedy Central and other networks, including such hits as “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
In papers submitted to a judge late Friday, Google said YouTube “goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works.”
It said that by seeking to make carriers and hosting providers liable for Internet communications, Viacom “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment and political and artistic expression.”
Google said YouTube was faithful to the requirements of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the federal law was intended to protect companies like YouTube as long as they responded properly to content owners‘ claims of infringement.
On that score, Viacom says Google has set a terrible example.
In a rewritten lawsuit filed last month, Viacom said YouTube consistently allows unauthorized copies of popular television programming and movies to be posted on its Web site and viewed tens of thousands of times.
Viacom said it had identified more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of copyrighted programming — including “SpongeBob SquarePants,” “South Park” and “MTV Unplugged” episodes and the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” - that had been viewed “an astounding 1.5 billion times.”
The company said its count of unauthorized clips represents only a fraction of the content on YouTube that violates its copyrights.
It said Google and YouTube had done “little or nothing” to stop infringement.
“To the contrary, the availability on the YouTube site of a vast library of the copyrighted works of plaintiffs and others is the cornerstone of defendants’ business plan,” Viacom said.
Google：对 YouTube 的起诉威胁信息交流自由
维亚康母公司 (Viacom Inc.) 最近起诉 YouTube 和其他视频网站导致“版权侵权行为爆炸性增长”，Google 的律师对其做出回应时，在递交美国曼哈顿联邦地方法院的书面材料中提出如题主张。
自从去年维亚康母公司提起诉讼，称其在未授权的浏览 MTV ，喜剧和其他在线媒体包括《乔恩每日脱口秀》等节目的点击中遭受损失以来，两公司的恩怨进一步加深。
在上周五向法官提交的书面材料中，Google表示，让 YouTube “协助内容提供商，以保护他们的作品不被侵权远远超出其法律义务” 。
Google 称，通过迫使运营商和托管商对网络通信承担责任，维亚康母公司影响到数亿人正当交换信息、传播新闻、在线娱乐及政见表达和艺术表现。
Google 表示，YouTube 一直遵守1998年颁布的《数字千年著作权法》，联邦法律应当对内容提供商的侵权主张做出适当回应，以保护像 YouTube 这样的公司。
维亚康母公司认为 Google 在这方面树立了糟糕的榜样。
在4月份修改后提请的诉讼中，维亚康母公司指控，YouTube 持续允许未经授权的流行电视节目和电影公布在其网站上，并允许这些文件被浏览数万次。
维亚康母称其已查出超过15万涉及版权的未授权版权节目剪辑，包括《海绵宝宝》，《南方公园》，《MTV Unplugged》节目和纪录片《难以忽视的真相》等，这些视频被浏览超过15亿次。
该公司称，上述对未经授权剪辑的统计仅是 YouTube 上违反版权内容的一小部分。
它认为 Google 和 YouTube 几乎未采取任何行动以制止侵权。
“相反，YouTube 网站提供的大量原告和其他人的有版权作品是被告商业计划的基础”，维亚康母称。
