In a significant legal victory for YouTube , a judge ruled that the website had not infringedcopyright laws by hosting copyrighted material on its website.
But it can hardly be compared with the damage done by record companies and the movie industry in complaining about, and removing, fan sites and material which allegedly infringedcopyright.
Viacom originally sued YouTube for copyright infringement in 2007, claiming that YouTube knowingly and intentionally infringed on its copyrights and deliberately permitted copyrighted material to remain on its site.