Brazilian Supreme Court Adopts Common Law Tests for Intermediary Liability in Copyright Case
By Felipe Busnello and Giancarlo Frosio on June 24, 2015 at 2:28 am
Last month, the Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ), the highest appellate court in Brazil for non-constitutional questions of federal law, awarded a landmark decision in a case discussing the liability of the social networking site Orkut for copyright infringing user-generated content on its site. The Court ruled that content providers cannot be held liable for copyright violations committed by third parties if they do not profit from copyright infringement on the part of its users.
