Adult Site Owner’s Petition Over Vicarious, Direct Copyright Infringement Denied

Mealey's (December 4, 2017, 1:04 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its Dec. 4 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari to the operator of an adult website that had appealed a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that a usenet provider was not liable for direct or vicarious infringement of its copyrighted images due to a lack of volitional conduct (Perfect 10 Inc. v. Giganews Inc., et al., No. 17-320, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. LEXIS 7259)....