YouTube and the DMCA safe harbor from copyright lawsuits

News:  Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache discuss “Google’s YouTube copyright worries.”  The authors discuss the basic copyright issue and get much, but not all, of it right.  The key provision for YouTube is Section 512 of the Copyright Act, more commonly known as the DMCA safe harbor for Internet service providers.  I will have more to say about this provision later.

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