Amazon Waives Right To Respond To Author’s DMCA Claims, Petition For Certiorari

(July 11, 2017, 2:08 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of trial and appeals court rulings in its favor, Amazon.com Inc. on June 28 waived its right to respond to a pro se plaintiff’s petition for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court, in which he asserts that the online retailer was negligent in its duty to remove infringing items from its website under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (Reginald Hart v. Amazon.com Inc., No. 16-1549, U.S. Sup.)....