A US federal judge has thrown out Viacom Inc's lawsuit accusing Google Inc of posting its programmes on YouTube without permission, a year after a federal appeals court had revived the landmark copyright infringement case.
For the second time in three years, US District Judge Louis Stanton in Manhattan rejected Viacom's damages claims over Google's alleged unauthorised posting of clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, South Park, SpongeBob SquarePants and other programmes that viewers had uploaded to YouTube.
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