Viacom first sued YouTube in 2007; the case is now back where it started.
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton, who first threw out the suit in 2010, had the case bounced back to him by the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in New York last April; Stanton repeated his earlier ruling that YouTube's posting of extensive—encyclopedic, in this reporter's memory—clips from Viacom series like The Daily Show fell under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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