Viacom Appeals YouTube Copyright Ruling

NEW YORK: Viacom has appealed a previous court decision which ruled that YouTube did not infringe on its copyrights.

Viacom sued the Google-owned video-sharing website in 2007, seeking $1 billion for unauthorized use of videos. A U.S. District Court ruled that YouTube hadn’t infringed copyrights because its protected by the "safe-harbor" provision of the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

“We believe this ruling by the lower court is fundamentally flawed,” Viacom said in a statement after the judge granted summary judgment to YouTube. “After years of delay, this decision gives us the opportunity to have the Appellate Court address these issues on an accelerated basis.”