Advanced Copyright Law on the Internet

financial benefit because the presence of infringing material on the Napster system acted as a draw for users. The Ninth Circuit ...

With respect to the control prong, the court found that Cybernet had the ability to control its member sites. Cybernet had a mon ...

forward through commercials, which Judge Posner found to be the creation of infringing derivative works.^2136 However, he conclu ...

control over the user of the product exists.”^2143 Accordingly, the court granted the defendants summary judgment on the issue o ...

contemplated by the “right and ability to supervise” test. ... We agree with the district court that possibilities for upgrading ...

district court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the claim with leave to Perfect 10 to amend.^2152 On appeal, the Ninth ...

to establish the control prong, it had not pled a viable claim of vicarious liability, and the court ruled that it need not reac ...

infringed its trademarks and copyrights. The plaintiff sought to hold the defendants contributorily and vicariously liable for h ...

sharing networks, the files were stored on “spool” news servers operated by the defendants. The defendants created designated se ...

Central directly liable as a matter of law for copying the images onto Master’s web site. It also found Master vicariously liabl ...

carriers could establish a system that would give them the right and ability to supervise the infringing activity. Luvdarts argu ...

the infringing material on the site enhanced the site’s attractiveness or drew customers. Accordingly, the court dismissed the c ...

operations or use digital fingerprinting technology to prevent copyright infringement by its users.^2188 (t) UMG Recording v. Es ...

services were scrutinized and shut down for copyright infringement, it would make the way for Usenet to “get back in the game.”^ ...

The plaintiffs were the owners of copyrighted movies that could be searched for through the index of dot-torrent files on the de ...

promotional page inviting users to upload torrent files for Matrix Reloaded, another recent film. Also “warez” metatags were emb ...

metadata for any web pages, or maintaining browseable web site categories of Dot-torrent or similar files using, titles of the p ...

expression or affirmative steps” is not a separate requirement, but rather, an explanation of how the improper object must be pr ...

and it was therefore important that it not permit inducement liability’s relatively lax causation requirement to enlarge the sco ...

(d) Arista Records v. Lime Group In Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC,^2219 the defendants distributed the peer-to- peer soft ...