NMPA Settles Youtube Lawsuit, Gets Nothing in Return
The long-running and doomed lawsuit Viacom v. Youtube was ended yesterday when the National Music Publishers Association settled with Google.
This was a copyright infringement lawsuit, and it’s a head-scratcher. A common-sense reading of the DMCA would indicate that Youtube didn’t have legal liability for the content that users uploaded (so long as Youtube met certain conditions). That is in fact why Youtube eventually won the suit.
The lawsuit was initially filed in 2007 by Viacom, and many NMPA jumped on board.
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