Fair Use Likely Protects Discussion of Blog Post and Comments
…v. Delsman Fair Use – It’s the Law (for what it’s worth)–Lenz v. Universal Perfect 10 v. Amazon Opinion Amendment–Ninth Circuit Does 180 on Fair Use Burden for Preliminary Injunction…
Another Blogger Wins a Fair Use Defense For a Photo–Leveyfilm v. Fox Sports
…Perfect 10 v. Amazon. The contributory liability claim fails because there wasn’t evidence that Yardbarker/Fox knew that Wysocki had infringed or was going to infringe. The vicarious liability claim failed…
Fair Use Protects Video Republication To Demonstrate Speaker’s Inconsistent Statements–Caner v. Autry
…– It’s the Law (for what it’s worth)–Lenz v. Universal Perfect 10 v. Amazon Opinion Amendment–Ninth Circuit Does 180 on Fair Use Burden for Preliminary Injunction Fair Use Network Launches…
Q1 2014 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP)
…The ruling also is critical of Perfect 10’s method of sending takedown notices, saying that Perfect 10 may have had to identify each Message-ID for allegedly infringing USENET posts. Prior…
CafePress May Not Qualify For 512 Safe Harbor – Gardner v. CafePress
…Owner Doesn’t Like 512(c)…and Thinks an Anti-Copying Filter is Copyright Infringing–Scott v. Scribd Takedown Notice Sent to Parent Doesn’t Affect Subsidiary’s 512(c) Defense–Perfect 10 v. Amazon Veoh Gets Another Nice…
In Its “Innocence of Muslims” Ruling, the Ninth Circuit is Guilty of Judicial Activism–Garcia v. Google
…new class of Internet incumbents, and recall in Perfect 10 v. Visa how he was perfectly willing to throw Visa under the bus. I infer from these and other datapoints…
Keyword Advertising Lawsuits Against Search Engines Mostly Tossed–Parts[.]com v. Google and Yahoo
…lawsuit. The dispositive fact is that “Plaintiff’s Complaint is devoid of allegations that Defendant in any way creates advertising content.” Citing Perfect 10 v. ccBill, the court reiterates that Section…
Perfect 10 Can’t Sue Yandex for Out-of-Country Activity (Catch-up Post)
…thumbnails. The court excuses those copies from direct infringement on fair use grounds, citing Perfect 10 v. Amazon. Perfect 10 also argued that Yandex committed secondary infringement by displaying full-sized…
Recap of Stanford E-Commerce Conference Panel on Takedown Notices
…Best practice: stand with your customers and stand up for users. Keller’s worst practices: don’t be Perfect 10 [good advice generally, but she meant it in the context of their…
Catching Up on 512 Safe Harbor Cases (and Other Online Copyright Cases) From the Past Year
…usual, Perfect 10 didn’t send a typically-formatted 512(c)(3) takedown notice. Still, in the context of a motion to dismiss, the court says Perfect 10’s notice was sufficient to constitute knowledge…