Now Available: My Internet Law Syllabus and Reader for Fall 2012
…deleted Io v. Veoh and the district court opinion in Viacom v. YouTube. This was a tough call. I thought the UMG case was a better teaching case than the…
Offering P2P File-Sharing Software for Downloading May Be Copyright Inducement–David v. CBS Interactive
…liability claims. See, e.g., Elsevier v. Chitika and UMG v. Veoh (the ruling involving Veoh’s investors). OK, so far so good–no tertiary contributory or vicarious infringement. But then the court…
Jan.-Feb. 2012 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright Edition)
…post on UMG v. Shelter Capital, where I wrote: “This case’s real result is that Veoh is legal, but Veoh is dead—killed by rightsowner lawfare that bled it dry.” *…
Top Internet Law Developments of 2011
…thunder with a powerful endorsement of the 17 USC 512 safe harbor. Too bad Veoh didn’t live long enough to enjoy the win. * In re Rolando S. Rolando was…
UGC Website Hit With Spoliation Sanctions–Io v. GLBT
…Io Group Inc. v. GLBT Ltd., 2011 WL 4974337 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 19, 2011) This case involves Io, the pornography company that lost Io v. Veoh, the main 17 USC…
UMG v. Shelter Capital: A Cautionary Tale of Rightsowner Overzealousness
…still get to go to their cushy jobs tomorrow. The same can’t be said for Veoh, even though it “won.” Veoh’s employees? On the street. Veoh’s investors? SOL. Veoh’s community?…
Infringing Download Without Further Infringement Only Supports Lost License Fee–Real View v. 20-20
…out, but other interesting case include Oracle v. Google, Bryant v. Media Right, UMG v. Veoh (more to say about that case soon) and of course the P2P file-sharing cases…
Catching Up on 4 Months of Online Copyright Cases–Myxer, Hotfile, Megaupload, Flava Works, Zediva, Blue Nile, Perfect 10, Rojadirecta
…to displease judges hearing online copyright cases. As we learned in Io v. Veoh, websites that go beyond the DMCA and proactively fight copyright infringement get a lot of extra…
Photo Hosting Site Gets DMCA 512 Safe Harbor–Wolk v. Photobucket
…(in particular, this case repeatedly cites Io v. Veoh and Viacom v. YouTube) that the court treats this litigation as a fairly easy and routine case. Given how many tortured…
YouTube Gets Decisive Win in Viacom/FAPL Case
…The court also favorably cites the ccBill, UMG v. Veoh, Corbis v. Amazon and Tiffany v. eBay cases. By doing so, the court subtly does two things. First, it imports…