Record Labels Ask High Court To Hear Dispute On DMCA Immunity For Pre-1972 Works

Mealey's (December 19, 2016, 12:58 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Dec. 14 petition for certiorari, a group of record labels ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the safe harbor protections from copyright infringement liability that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides for internet service providers apply to sound recordings from before 1972, which are governed by state law, rather than federal copyright law (Capitol Records LLC, et al. v. Vimeo LLC, et al., No. 16-771, U.S. Sup.)....