Legal Opinion
Mavrix Photographs, LLC v. Live Journal, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 7, 2017No. 14-56596PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAEZ, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Mavrix Photographs (“Mavrix”) appeals the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Defendant LiveJournal. Mavrix sued LiveJournal for posting twenty of its copyrighted photographs online. The district court held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (“DMCA”) § 512(c) safe harbor protected LiveJournal from liability because Mavrix’s photographs were posted at the direction of the user. 17 U.S.C. § 512(c).
To be eligible at the threshold for the § 512(c) safe harbor, LiveJournal must show that the photographs were posted at the direction of the…
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