A judge has ruled out the possibility of YouTube violating the content norms against Viacom. YouTube is owned by Google Inc.

The case against the site was that it violated copyrights against Viacom in terms of clips from its TV channels, MTV and Comedy Central. The videos made of content coming on these channels were posted on YouTube.

The decision was made by the US District Judge Louis Stanton in New York. He said that Google was not liable to pay anything to Viacom.

In the lawsuit, Viacom had asked Google to pay $1 billion as part of the damage charges.

Stanton said that YouTube was not liable since it was protected under the provision of the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act and if it removes the contents from its website then there is no case against it.

Stanton said in his ruling, "The provider must know of the particular case before he can control it. He need not monitor facts indicating such act."

He also said that YouTube gets huge inflow of content and has a strict policy to control it. There then, is no need for a separate activity against the site or its owners.