Video-Streaming Firm’s Filtering Service Violates DMCA, Studios Tell 9th Circuit

Mealey's (February 13, 2017, 1:41 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Several movie studios tell the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Feb. 8 appellee brief that a video-streaming service provider blatantly violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing the technological protection measures (TPMs) on DVD and Blu-ray copies of their movies to offer edited versions to customers, also arguing that the defendant’s defenses under the Family Movie Act (FMA) are incompatible with that statute’s purposes (Disney Enterprises Inc., et al. v. VidAngel Inc., No. 16-56843, 9th Cir.)....