Legal Opinion
Mavrix Photographs, LLC v. Livejournal, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 7, 2017No. 14-56596PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAEZ, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Mavrix; Photographs (“Mav-rix”) appeals the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Defendant LiveJour-nal. 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 stored 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 stored at the direction of the…
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