Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 2 of 3)
By Annemarie Bridy on April 10, 2017 at 11:56 am
This is the second of three posts on the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Mavrix v. LiveJournal. The first post considered (and found fault with) 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. This post will consider the court’s analysis of issue (3) of the six issues I called out in the first post: whether, in the absence of takedown notices, LiveJournal had actual or red flag knowledge that the watermarked Mavrix photos were infringing. Read more about Is Bad News for LiveJournal Bad News for the DMCA Safe Harbors? (Post 2 of 3)