Veoh defeats copyright lawsuit

I'm sure we all know what Veoh is. And if you don't, well Veoh is a video sharing website just like youtube, except it also has a bunch of features like Veoh TV, internet TV and lots more. Anyway, since Veoh is like youtube, and youtube has been complained against for copyright infringements, there's bound to be lawsuits and complaints against Veoh too, especially now that it's becoming much more popular than before.
Veoh has just recently won their copyright infringement lawsuit. The copyright lawsuit began in 2006 by Io Group and has dragged on for a while. Veoh managed to defend themselves by saying they complied with the DMCA laws and the court found that this was the case. What exactly did they do?
Well, Veoh said that their program was self controlled and thus they had no active role in it, which meant they couldn't control what went on their website. Plus, they also deleted videos that copyright owners asked them to delete. This is no doubt true and IMO it's quite fair.

With this new victory against the copyright infringement lawsuit, Youtube has more confidence that they too will win the battle against Viacom's $1 billion infringement lawsuit. This was the statement from Google that was on a Wall Street Journal post:

It is great to see the court confirm that the DMCA protects services like YouTube that follow the law and respect copyrights...YouTube has gone above and beyond the law to protect content owners while empowering people to communicate and share their experiences online.

Unfortunately for Youtube, simply because Veoh won their case doesn't mean Youtube will as well. There is a very important reason for this. And IMO, Veoh is a completely fair video sharing website while Youtube may have some problems in their case. (Not that I'm against Youtube, just that they need to brush up their system) You see, Veoh actually holds liscensing for many or some of its videos from copyright owners. Youtube, on the other hand does not. The court also issused a statement about other unscrupulous video sharng websites not being able to hide under this protection. It may have been referring to sites like Youtube. Though, I don't think youtube is likely to be defeated. In fact, I don't think any website that immediately removes video content upon request is going to be defeated.

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