Shutterstock Escapes Photographer’s Copyright Infringement Suit

Shutterstock Inc. won summary judgment on a photographer’s copyright infringement claims related to hundreds of his photographs that were uploaded to the image licensing platform by third parties.

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York said in an order docketed Monday that Shutterstock “squarely falls within” the “service provider” definition of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provision.

McGucken said over 330 of his images had been uploaded to the site without his permission. Four days after he sent the company a DMCA-compliant takedown notice, the images were removed from the site. Though the contributor ...