Viacom Gets a Second Chance of Patent Infringement Against Youtube

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“NEW YORK—A federal appeals court has revived a $1 billion lawsuit by Viacom Inc. against Google Inc.’s YouTube over alleged unauthorized posting of Viacom content.

Viacom had sued YouTube, claiming the website allowed users to post copyrighted Viacom content without permission between 2005 and 2008, including content from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.”

In an order Thursday, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals remanded the case to a lower court, instructing the district judge to determine if YouTube had knowledge or awareness of specific infringing material and whether it willfully blinded itself to that specific …”