A federal judge dismissed a 2006 lawsuit against Veoh Networks brought by Io Group Inc. over alleged copyright infringements.

Io Group charged that users of the Veoh site were uploading copyrighted material and that Veoh was not sufficiently monitoring for copyright infringement. Citing safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), U.S. District Judge Howard Lloyd stated that while Veoh worked to preserve the integrity of copyrights, it could not be held responsible for the infractions of users who uploaded videos to the site.

The ruling is good news for YouTube because the Google subsidiary faces a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom over user-uploaded videos.

Originally posted on September 1, 2008 @ 6:12 am