Amazon’s Kodi Box Ban and Copyright Liability for Device Distributors
By Annemarie Bridy on March 31, 2017 at 4:20 pm
Amazon’s latest effort to mitigate IP infringement in its third-party seller program is a ban on the sale of streaming media devices (“Kodi boxes”) that promote piracy. In addition to banning sales of the devices, Amazon reserves the right to destroy any offending physical inventory in its warehouses. The new policy raises not-so-new questions about the ability of copyright holders to control the distribution of dual-use technologies that can (but needn’t necessarily) be used to infringe copyrights. Read more about Amazon’s Kodi Box Ban and Copyright Liability for Device Distributors