Intellectual Property
Aug. 19, 2010
The Shifting Tide: Courts Favoring ISPs in Copyright Infringement Battles
There's a trend of copyright infringement decisions favoring Internet service providers that use filtering software to identify pirated videos, by John F. Stephens of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold.
The recent Viacom v. YouTube litigation further defined what is acceptable behavior by "user-generated content" sites toward copyrighted works.
On June 23, a federal district judge in the Southern District of New York granted the video-sharing site YouTube (now owned by Google) a victory. The ruling is the latest in a trend of one-sided interpretations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in favor of Internet service providers (ISPs). Congress enacted the DMCA to ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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