YouTube: Victory in lawsuit with Viacom important for Web communications

In Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube, the court decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act against claims of copyright infringement. According to Mashable ’s Adam Ostrow, Viacom had claimed YouTube deliberately infringed on its copyrights and allowed offending content to remain on its site. In a blog post on Wednesday, YouTube execs called the decision, “An important victory not just for us, but also for t…