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Recent Decision Illustrates Potential Global Implications of DMCA Takedown Requests

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a section in the US Copyright Act that provides a safe harbor for internet service providers so long as they comply with a notice and takedown system. The way the DMCA works is a...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (and Potentially Thousands of Dollars in Statutory Damages)

In the time it took you to read this far, a new website was built (per Siteefy, a new site goes live every three seconds). More than 70% of all businesses have a website, and there are more than 600 million blogs on the...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

"Server Test" Is Reaffirmed (For Now) in Hunley v. Instagram, LLC

On July 17, 2023, in Hunley v. Instagram, LLC, No. 22-15293, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed the "server test," which protects websites from copyright liability for embedding images that are hosted on another website's server....more

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Embedded Instagram Content Passes the Server Test, According to Ninth Circuit

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On July 17, 2023, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the applicability of the "Server Test" to embedded content on third-party sites and affirmed dismissal of a copyright action in favor of defendant, social media platform Instagram....more

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The Accidental Infringer: What You Need to Know about Copyright When Using Photos from the Web

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You’ve received a letter from a lawyer saying that a photo you found online and uploaded to your website infringes a photographer’s copyright. Maybe you do nothing and wait to see if you get another letter. Maybe you take the...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - October 2022

Thank you for reading the October 2022 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we discuss an ongoing trademark suit involving a claim of irreparable harm, share the now open gTLD Sunrise periods,...more

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Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - If a Photograph is Infringed But No One Sees it, is it Still Infringement?

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In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss a photographer’s copyright infringement lawsuit against a travel website that stored his image on a webpage that is unlikely to be...more

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The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: If a Photograph is Infringed But No One Sees it, is it Still Infringement?

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In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss a photographer’s copyright infringement lawsuit against a travel website that stored his image on a page that is unlikely to be viewed...more

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Podcast - The Briefing from the IP Law Blog: Embed at Your Own (Copyright) Risk

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In this episode of the Briefing from the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss a copyright lawsuit against Buzzfeed, over its practice of embedding images from social media pages into their website. ...more

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The Briefing from the IP Law Blog: Embed at Your Own (Copyright) Risk

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In this episode of the Briefing from the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss a copyright lawsuit against Buzzfeed, over its practice of embedding images from social media pages into their website. ...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Thinking of Framing or Embedding Content? New York Federal Courts Question the Copyright "Server Test"

Imagine you operate a website. Another website posts an image or video that you want to discuss on your site. In most circumstances, you cannot simply copy and repost that content without obtaining a license, because someone...more

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Federal Judge Finds Copyright Issues “Embedded” in Social Media Re-Posts

Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York recently denied a motion to dismiss in a copyright dispute involving the unlicensed “embedding” of a social media video. In doing so, the court explicitly and definitively...more

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Advanced Copyright Issues On The Internet - UPDATED September 2020

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During recent years, the Internet has become the basic foundational infrastructure for the global movement of data of all kinds. With continued growth at a phenomenal rate, the Internet has moved from a quiet means of...more

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The Second Circuit Reaffirms Volitional Conduct is Needed for Direct Copyright Infringement

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The Second Circuit confirms volitional conduct is needed to hold internet service providers liable for direct copyright infringement—it just disagrees what “volitional conduct” actually means. ...more

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Obituary Piracy Assessed

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Thomson v. Afterlife Network Inc., 2019 FC 545, is a Federal Court decision in which the Court considers the existence of copyright in obituaries used in an e-commerce context....more

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Second Circuit Punts on In-Line Linking Appeal

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The Second Circuit denied an interlocutory appeal in a high stakes copyright case that is being closely watched by both photographers and media companies around the country, sending key issues in the case back to the district...more

Hogan Lovells

CJEU: Re-posting content is a “communication to the public”

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Copying an image from a website and using it for one’s own purposes, e.g. the illustration of a memo which eventually happens to be uploaded to another website – this happens a hundred times every day. However, such conduct...more

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If This Copyright Law Post Mentions Hamilton, You’re More Likely to Read It

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This post is about Hamilton. Well, sort of. It’s actually about copyright law. But keep reading!...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

New York Court Rebuffs Ninth Circuit’s Copyright “Server Test,” Finds Embedded Tweet Displaying Copyrighted Image to Be...

A New York district court recently held that a host of online news publishers and media websites that embedded certain tweets (containing unauthorized uploads of plaintiff’s copyrighted photo) on their websites violated the...more

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CJEU rules on Cloud Recorder: Transmission constitutes a communication to the public that requires the right holders consent

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On 29 November 2017, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down a decision on a video recording service that stores TV programmes online in a cloud (C-265/16 – VCAST). ...more

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German Federal Court Rules On Google’s Image Search – Thumbnails III

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On 21 September 2017, the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) handed down a judgment of utmost importance for the exploitation of copyright on the Internet. It will become known and referred to under the name...more

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Eleventh Circuit Joins Split Court Decisions on Registration Precondition for Copyright Suits

Section 411(a) of the Copyright Act generally requires copyright registration, or a refusal of registration, before a copyright action may be filed. This has led to a variety of decisions from the Circuit and District Courts...more

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Litigation Alert: “Oh No They Didn’t!” – Ninth Circuit Throws DMCA Safe Harbors for Moderated Content into Disarray

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A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit handed down its latest decision on the scope of the optional safe harbor for web hosting services under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The April 7 decision in...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The World in US Courts: Orrick's Quarterly Review of Decisions Applying US Law to Global Business and Cross-Border Activities

Alien Tort Statute (ATS)/Political Question Doctrine/Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA)/ Act of State Doctrine - District Court Dismisses ATS Claim Where Alleged Conduct in US was not Directly Linked to Injuries...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Know Thy Software Vendor: Website Operator Cannot Sidestep Copyright Infringement Claims over Link to Allegedly Infringing...

Last month, a New York district court refused to dismiss most of the copyright infringement claims asserted against a website operator based on an allegation that the website linked to an infringing copy of plaintiff’s...more

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