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Judge sides with Google, YouTube in Viacom’s $1B suit

NEW YORK — Entertainment companies may find it harder to keep movie and TV show clips from circulating for free online after a federal judge on Wednesday threw out Viacom’s hotly contested $1 billion copyright infringement suit against Google’s YouTube.