Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 3 of 3)
By Annemarie Bridy on April 12, 2017 at 8:13 am
This is the last of three posts on the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Mavrix v. LiveJournal. The first post considered the court’s conclusion that LiveJournal’s moderation and curation of user-submitted posts created a triable issue of fact on the question of the site’s eligibility for the section 512(c) safe harbor for sites that store material “at the direction” of users. The second post examined the court’s analysis of LiveJournal’s potential knowledge of the alleged infringements in light of the fact that Mavrix didn’t send takedown notices for them. This final entry takes a look at what I identified in the first post as issue (4): whether LiveJournal had the right and ability to control the infringements, as evidenced by the required “something more” than the right to remove or block access to user-submitted infringing material. Read more about Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 3 of 3)