Io Group, Inc. (“Io”) sued Veoh Networks, Inc. (“Veoh”) in federal district court for direct, contributory, and/or vicarious copyright infringement performed in the website veoh.com, which enables the sharing of user-provided content. Veoh responded that it qualifies for safe harbor under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), which provides protection from liability for: “(1) transitory digital network communications; (2) system caching; (3) information residing on systems or networks at the direction of users; and (4) information location tools.” The United States District Court for the Northern District of California agreed with defendant Veoh and dismissed the case.
Io Group, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc.
Published in Tuesday, October 10, 2008, Volume 6, No. 1