Advanced Copyright Law on the Internet

(f) Disney Enterprises v. Hotfile 503

(g) UMG Recording v. Escape Media 505

5. Adequacy of Pleadings of Secondary Liability Against Service Providers 505

(a) Miller v. Facebook 505

(b) Williams v. Scribd 506

6. Limitations of Liability of Online Service Providers in the DMCA 507
(a) History of the Various Legislative Efforts 507

(b) The OSP Liability Provisions of the DMCA 508

(1) Safe Harbors – Definition of a “Service Provider” 509

(i) Acting as a Mere Conduit for Infringing Information –
Section 512(a) 509

a. The Napster Case 510
b. Ellison v. Robertson 512
c. The Aimster/Madster Lawsuits 517
d. Perfect 10 v. CCBill 519
e. Columbia Pictures v. Fung 526

f. American Broadcasting v. Aereo 528

(ii) Caching – Section 512(b) 528

a. Field v. Google 530

b. Parker v. Google 531
c. Perfect 10 v. Google 531
(iii) Innocent Storage of Infringing Information – Section
512(c) 536

a. The ALS Scan Case – What Constitutes a
“Substantially” Compliant Notice 538

b. Hendrickson v. eBay 542

c. CoStar v. LoopNet 546

d. Perfect 10 v. Cybernet Ventures 554

e. The Aimster/Madster Lawsuits 557
f. Hendrickson v. Amazon.com 557

g. Rossi v. MPAA 559

h. Perfect 10 v. CCBill 560
i. Corbis Corp. v. Amazon.com, Inc. 562
j. Tur v. YouTube, Inc. 567
k. Io Group v. Veoh Networks 568

l. UMG Recordings v. Veoh Networks 572

m. Perfect 10 v. Amazon 587
n. Louis Vuitton v. Akanoc Solutions 588

o. Viacom v. YouTube 589

p. Perfect 10 v. Google 600
q. Wolk v. Kodak Imaging Network 601

r. Arista Records v. Myxer 604

s. Flava Works v. Gunter 608

t. Capitol Records v. MP3tunes 608

u. Obodai v. Demand Media 617