Technically Legal

As of today, summary judgment filings in the Viacom v. YouTube/Google case have been made public. Both Google and Viacom have cross filed for summary judgment–meaning both the defendant and the plaintiff believe the law should be interpreted in their favor.

These motions have been highly anticipated since the litigation began nearly three years ago. Google disputed the time frame of making these documents public, claiming it would have been a logistical nightmare in terms of making the necessary redactions for confidential information and trade secret information. Judge Stanton disagreed with Google, and ordered the filings to be made public this week.

TechCrunch has the filings on their site. After I get a chance to comb through them, more thoughts on the arguments of each side will be posted. Stay tuned.

Thanks to Ben Sheffner and TechCrunch for helpful posts.

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