Adult Site Operator Tells High Court Usenet Provider Benefitted From Infringement

Mealey's (November 17, 2017, 7:21 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals mistakenly held that a usenet service provider did not profit from the millions of unauthorized copyrighted images on its fee-based websites, an adult website operator argues in a Nov. 8 reply brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking a writ of certiorari to resolve what it says is a circuit split over a copyright holder’s duty to establish an infringer’s profits directly attributable to its works (Perfect 10 Inc. v. Giganews Inc., et al, No. 17-320, U.S. Sup.)....