Over at the Utube Blog is a complete rundown of the arguments that Viacom and YouTube/Google’s lawyers made re: their lawsuit on a panel discussion this week at the Fordman IP Conference.
Donald Verrilli, from DC’s Jenner & Block, represents Viacom. He’s the lawyer who succesfully represented the movie studios against Grokster before the Supreme Court.
Alex Macgillivray, Google’s Senior Product and IP Counsel, spoke on behalf of Google and YouTube. Alex has also been affiliated with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The two lawyers were speaking on a panel with several other lawyers, but I will only discuss the Viacom-Google exchange, summarizing the main arguments in the general order in which they were presented.
Like myself, this author is surprised at how much the attorneys are willing to talk publically. This needs to be played out in court, not at press releases and conferences. From the synopsis it seems that Verrilli’s argument has changed slightly from a few weeks ago.
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