Legal Opinion
Hendrickson v. eBay, Inc.
District Court, C.D. California
Decided September 4, 2001No. CV 01-0495 RJK (RNBx), CV 01-3412 RJKPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS EBAY INC., MARGARET C. WHITMAN AND MICHAEL RICHTER’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OR, ALTERNATIVELY, MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT
KELLEHER, District Judge.
This case involves a matter of first impression in the federal courts: whether one of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) affords protection to the operator of the popular Internet auction web service, www.ebay.com, when a copyright owner seeks to hold the operator second arily liable for copyright infringement by its sellers. On August 20, 2001, the Court heard…
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