9th Circuit Reverses Safe-Harbor Holding In Web Copyright Case

Mealey's (April 10, 2017, 12:27 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Findings by a California federal judge that a copyright infringement defendant social media platform is entitled to safe-harbor immunity under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), were reversed and remanded April 7 by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Mavrix Photographs LLC v. LiveJournal Inc., No. 14-56956, 9th Cir.; 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 6028)....