The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of Vimeo in its ongoing copyright infringement litigation against Capitol Records and other labels. The court rejected the labels' claims that Vimeo should be liable for infringing uploaded music, emphasizing that the labels failed to adequately prove that Vimeo employees could identify unlicensed content without specialized copyright knowledge. The ruling reinforces the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's safe harbor protections, highlighting the difficulties that rightsholders have in accurately identifying infringement, which impacts the responsibilities of service providers like Vimeo.
In a major win for creator communities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has once again handed video streaming site Vimeo a solid win in its long-running legal battle with Capitol Records.
Labels often request takedowns of music they don't own or control, and even request takedowns of their own content. They also regularly target fair uses.
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