In the wake of Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against Google, the company’s lawyers have said that not only are their actions completely within the protection offered by the Digital Millinnium Copyright Act, but that they are ready to defend the company aggressively.

“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.

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