Who’s Ultimately Going To Decide Copyright?

“The content industry was a big supporter of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998. Viacom is apparently less of a supporter today. It complains that YouTube has not done enough ‘to take reasonable precautions to deter the rampant infringement on its site.’ Instead, the Viacom argument goes, YouTube has shifted the burden of monitoring that infringement onto the victim of that infringement — namely, Viacom. But it wasn’t YouTube that engineered this shift. It was the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.”