Second Circuit Affirms Obodai DMCA Ruling

A New York federal district court correctly determined that Demand Media Inc. was eligible for the user storage safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in a case alleging that Demand had either actual or imputed knowledge of third party infringement on one of its websites, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled May 29 (Obodai v. Demand Media, 2d Cir., 12-2450, 5/29/13).

In an unsigned summary order, the court said that the undisputed evidence established that Demand satisfied the requirements under the DMCA, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) and (i).

The safe harbor ...