Vimeo’s Win in Copyright Infringement Case Affirmed by 2nd Cir.

Vimeo Inc.'s win in a long-running copyright infringement case brought by a group of record companies was upheld by a federal appeals court on Monday.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act shields Vimeo from copyirght liability over user-uploaded videos, Judge Pierre N. Leval of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit wrote in a Monday opinion.

The record companies sued Vimeo in 2009, alleging that hundreds of user-uploaded videos that included unlicensed clips of copyrighted music recordings.

They initially won, but the Second Circuit ruled in an earlier appeal that the DMCA safe harbor protections applied to pre-1972 ...