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Whats at stake for Viacom and other copyright owners?

April 26, 2017copyright owners stake viacom

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Whats at stake for Viacom and other copyright owners?

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Since YouTube cleaned up its site long ago, Viacom isn’t suing to stop copyright infringement anymore. But the company says in its court documents that it was wronged by YouTube and wants compensation. For copyright owners, a Viacom loss could render copyrights even harder to protect. The Internet is vast. Who has the time and money to patrol it and continuously send take-down notices? YouTube says there’s no way for it to know that a clip has been uploaded by a copyright owner or not.