It’s been a long week for Google. At the beginning of the month, Google finally submitted their response (PDF) to Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over video content on YouTube. The gist – they’re claiming they’re protected by the DMCA. Search Engine Land and TechDirt have good summaries of the response. [Read more...]

Last month, Viacom caused a major stink when it demanded YouTube remove all it’s copyrighted materials. YouTube complied and removed 100,000 videos – including some that weren’t infringing on Viacom’s copyright. Since then, all sorts of copyright bickering has gone on. [Read more...]

The Los Angeles News Service and its owner Robert Tur have sued YouTube for posting copyrighted footage on their website. Specifically, someone posted a video of the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 LA riots.

Tur, who apparently has a reputation as “an active litigant”, is asking for $150,000 for each infringement (it was viewed 1000 times) – or $150 million in damages! He decided to sue YouTube rather than the person that upload because [Read more...]