Supreme Court Declines To Hear Case On DMCA Safe Harbor For Pre-1972 Recordings

Mealey's (March 29, 2017, 12:25 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ finding that Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe-harbor provisions apply to pre-1972 recordings will stand, as the U.S. Supreme Court on March 27 denied a group of record labels’ petition for certiorari in their dispute with an online video-sharing service that they accused of infringing their copyrighted works (Capitol Records LLC, et al. v. Vimeo LLC, et al., No. 16-771, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. LEXIS 2055)....