Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs in copyright case

U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued that they needed the data to show whether their copyright-protected videos are more heavily watched than amateur clips.

The data would not be publicly released, but disclosed only to the plaintiffs, and it would include less specific identifiers than a user's real name or email address.