Capitol Records can continue its copyright infringement case...
Capitol Records can continue its copyright infringement case against Vimeo over user-generated lip-sync clips, the U.S. District Court in New York ruled last week (http://bit.ly/1eCt8Gv). In Capitol Records v. Vimeo, the court partially granted and partially denied both sides’ summary…
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judgment motions, saying Vimeo was protected under the safe-harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for some of the 199 potentially infringing videos, but for those videos in which Vimeo employees had posted comments, the court ruled that “triable issues exist” about whether Vimeo had red-flag knowledge of the infringing content.