Record Labels Tell 2nd Circuit Vimeo Not Entitled To DMCA Safe Harbor

Mealey's (April 29, 2022, 10:28 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A trial court wrongly found that Vimeo Inc. was entitled to safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a group of record labels argue in an April 13 brief in the second appeal to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals of a long-running copyright infringement suit, maintaining that employees of the video-sharing website were aware of “red flags” that indicated that many user-posted videos infringed copyrighted songs....