Some 47 USC 230 Cases From the Past Year You Might Have Missed (Because I Didn’t Blog Them)
…Perfect 10 case. This time Perfect 10 sued Giganews for providing a commercial service to access USENET newsgroups. I’ll have more to say about the copyright and trademark angles of…
Perfect 10 Gets a Surprising Partial Sumary Judgment in 512 Case–Perfect 10 v. Yandex
…Perfect 10. Thus, it’s a little disorienting/surprising to see Perfect 10 win anything in court, even if it’s a small preliminary ruling. Perfect 10’s target in this lawsuit is Yandex,…
More Evidence That Congress Misaligned the DMCA Online Copyright Safe Harbors–UMG v. Grooveshark (Forbes Cross-Post)
…in 2007 that all state IP claims against UGC websites (including, presumably, state copyright laws) categorically are preempted by a different federal website immunity, 47 U.S.C. 230 (see Perfect 10…
Amazon Not Liable for Affiliates’ Allegedly Bad Acts–Routt v. Amazon
…Perfect 10 v. Amazon. The court also says it’s persuaded by the analogous Sellify v. Amazon ruling, also rejecting Amazon’s liability for its affiliates’ conduct. Direct Copyright Infringement. The court…
Now Available: My Internet Law Syllabus and Reader for Fall 2012
…Ninth Circuit, so UMG is the governing law for them, and the UMG ruling distills a lot of Ninth Circuit law that had been murky since the 2007 Perfect 10…
Video Embedding Site Isn’t a Contributory Copyright Infringer, But Sideloading Could Be Direct Infringement–Flava Works v. myVidster
…to infringing files. Posner does separately address the 106 public performance right, but I found the opinion about that especially inscrutable. I’m hoping someone else can help me understand what…
Offering P2P File-Sharing Software for Downloading May Be Copyright Inducement–David v. CBS Interactive
…wasn’t linking to third party websites to complete the downloads (the software was delivered off Download.com’s servers). The court understood the problems with tertiary liability. Relying heavily on Perfect 10…
H1 2012 Quick Links, Part 4 (Search Engines, eBay, Social Networking Sites)
…10 v. Yandex NV, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80661 (N.D. Cal. June 11, 2012). Perfect 10 gets jurisdictional discovery to see if it can establish personal jurisdiction over Yandex. *…
H1 2012 Quick Links, Part 2 (Copyright)
…blog post. * Is the long-running Perfect 10 v. Google case finally over? Prior blog post. * Coverage of Cambridge University Press v. Becker (the Georgia State coursepack case) from…
Is SOPA’s “Follow the Money” Meme Infecting Anti-Spam Litigation? – Project Honey Pot v. Does
[Post by Gucci v. Frontline;…