9th Circuit Declines To Rehear Case Over DMCA Takedowns And Fair Use

Mealey's (March 18, 2016, 8:49 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Universal Music Corp. and a woman who sued the music label for removing her video from YouTube on March 17 saw their respective rehearing petitions denied by a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel, letting stand the panel’s September ruling in which it affirmed denial of both parties’ summary judgment motions in a long-running lawsuit over the “fair use” standard in relation to copyright holders’ ability to take down purportedly infringing content from the Internet under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (Stephanie Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., et al., No. 13-16106 and 13-16107, 9th Cir.)....