Supreme Court Denies Adult Firm’s Petition Over DMCA Safe Harbor

Mealey's (October 29, 2018, 11:21 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its Oct. 29 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an adult entertainment company’s petition for certiorari regarding the safe-harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which the petitioner said allowed video-sharing websites to evade copyright infringement liability for massive amounts of copyrighted material knowingly uploaded by third parties (Ventura Content Ltd. v. Motherless Inc., et al., No. 18-235, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 6429)....