Google’s Response to Viacom

In their defense to this suit, Google notes that they believe that all their products launched in accordance with current copyright laws and that they will continue to work on new products regardless of this suit.

“Here there is a law which is specifically designed to give Web hosts such as us, or… bloggers or people that provide photo-album hosting online … the ’safe harbor’ we need in order to be able to do hosting online,” said Alexander Macgillivray, Google’s associate general counsel for products and intellectual property.

“We will never launch a product or acquire a company unless we are completely satisfied with its legal basis for operating,” Macgillivray told Reuters in an interview.