Advanced Copyright Law on the Internet

Drawing on these principles, the court ruled that the DMCA places a limit on the viability of an otherwise adequate notice, and ...

the reasonableness of the investigation should be judged under an objective standard of review, and that the MPAA had failed to ...

With respect to the issue of knowledge, the district court found Perfect 10’s notifications to CWIE of infringement to be defici ...

receiving a direct financial benefit. Accordingly, the court ruled that there was no genuine issue that CWIE had received a dire ...

vendor might be infringing another’s copyrights, it would cancel the allegedly infringing listing and send an email to the vendo ...

Whether Amazon Had Reasonably Implemented Its Infringement Policy. To judge the adequacy of implementation of an infringement p ...

infringement is occurring.”^2537 Citing various previously decided cases, the court noted that examples of such blatant infringe ...

Whether Amazon Had Knowledge of Infringement. Having concluded that Amazon satisfied all predicate conditions of Section 512(i) ...

compliant, Amazon asserted that it promptly canceled a listing after receiving a notice of infringement, an assertion that Corbi ...

site. YouTube moved for summary judgment under the Section 512(c) safe harbor. The court denied summary judgment, finding that t ...

a DMCA notice), and the user’s email address would be blocked so that a new account could not be opened with that same address. ...

implementation of Veoh’s policy. Io Group had presented no evidence that a repeat infringer had, in fact, established a new acco ...

Group’s argument that Veoh should have known that no legitimate producer of sexually explicit material would have omitted the la ...

bear titles resembling the plaintiff’s works and the plaintiff had not provided Veoh with its titles to search.^2564 The court f ...

The case of UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc.^2569 involved the same user- generated content site, Veoh Networks, as t ...

relief. The court granted Veoh’s motion for summary judgment.^2575 Because the basic facts of the case were not disputed, the co ...

it takes willful ignorance of readily apparent infringement to find a ‘red flag,’ Veoh has provided substantial evidence that it ...

by using “hash” filtering and by attempting to develop its own filtering software. UMG dismisses hash filtering as “highly ineff ...

phrase “right and ability to control” should be construed to impose a higher standard of control than the common law standard fo ...

was issued on Dec. 20, 2011,^2590 before the Second Circuit’s decision in the Viacom case.^2591 The Ninth Circuit’s first opinio ...