9th Circuit Upholds Judgment, Denial Of Fees In Copyright Dispute

Mealey's (March 15, 2018, 12:35 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge did not err in finding that the owner and operator of a website that posts pornographic pictures and video clips qualified for the safe harbor defense set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), because the infringing material was posted online at the direction of users and the copyright holder failed to establish a genuine issue of fact as to actual knowledge, a divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled March 14 (Ventura Content Ltd. v. Motherless Inc., et al., Nos. 13-56332, -56970, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 6307)....