The IO Group, an adult entertainment company, didn’t care for its videos appearing on an Internet video-sharing website, Veoh Networks, without its permission. It sued. Unfortunately for the IO Group, a California court ruled that Veoh was protected by the safe-harbor provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA protects content-sharing websites from copyright infringement claims as long as they take certain measures in preventing copyright infringement, including taking down copyright content upon notice from the copyright owner.
Operators of content-sharing websites should avail themselves of the safer-harbors provisions of the DMCA, or else risk serious claims of copyright infringement.
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–Matt
