Vimeo’s Second Circuit DMCA Safe Harbor Win Over Capitol Records
…that has 31M videos. Like the UMG v. Veoh case, this case implicates the music on those videos, ranging from background music to “lip dubs.” Although Vimeo would screen videos…
9th Circuit Sides With Fair Use in Dancing Baby Takedown Case
…The Ninth Circuit’s embarrassing non-definition of willful blindness in the Veoh case (using a quadruple-negative sentence) highlighted that no one knows what the phrase means or when we’ll see it….
Two 512(f) Rulings Where The Litigants Dispute Copyright Ownership
…not enough to take iTunes outside the scope of subsection 512(c) [cite to Io v. Veoh and Viacom v. YouTube]. The court then summarizes the open questions: On the one…
Morel Denied Attorneys’ Fees In Long-Running Suit Over Photos Lifted From Twitpic
…get a $1.2M award. I don’t know if AFP/Getty sought FCRP Rule 68 attorneys fees for their post-settlement offer work. See my post on Veoh discussing that issue. I’m shocked…
Four Unanswered Questions From Aereo’s Supreme Court Loss (Forbes Cross-Post)
…and the court system) face higher adjudication costs to reach the same outcome. Those adjudication costs can absolutely chill innovation, as we saw when copyright owners kicked YouTube-competitor Veoh out…
CafePress May Not Qualify For 512 Safe Harbor – Gardner v. CafePress
…512(c) Win–UMG v. Veoh Io v. Veoh Comments–a Terrific 512(c) Defense-Side Win Catching Up on 512 Safe Harbor Cases (and Other Online Copyright Cases) From the Past Year Perfect 10…
Catching Up on 512 Safe Harbor Cases (and Other Online Copyright Cases) From the Past Year
…but they (shockingly) leave some clarity to be desired. UMG v. Shelter Capital (Veoh) (Mar. 14, 2013) [pdf]: The 9th Circuit previously issued a ruling in this case (covered by…
Viacom Loses Again–Viacom v. YouTube
…law interpretations of the 512 safe harbors are getting messier and more convoluted due to this lawsuit and the parallel suits like UMG v. Veoh. Basically, rather than handing defendants…
Designing Optimal Immunities and Safe Harbors (Forbes Cross-Post)
…harbor, but the ruling came too late. By the time the Ninth Circuit blessed Veoh’s practices, Veoh was already dead due to its unsupportable litigation costs. In contrast, Section 230…
“Notes and Questions” About the UMG v. Shelter Capital Case (Excerpt from my Internet Law Reader)
…Veoh had those videos taken offline. So the case produces an anomaly: the courts gave Veoh a clean bill of health, but getting that clean bill of health killed Veoh….