DMCA

This week, Brigham Young University hopes to influence revisions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. BYU would like to change certain limitations on circumvention and reproduction of copyrighted motion pictures in order to use them in ways that meet copyright’s Educational Exemption more often.

BMG Rights Management (US) LLC v. Cox Communications, Inc., 14-cv-1611 (E.D. VA 2017)

Disney Enterprises, Inc. v. VidAngel, Inc., 16-56843 (9th Cir. Aug. 24, 2017)

Highsmith v. Getty Images (US), Inc., et al, 16-cv-05924 (S.D.N.Y. 2016)

On December 17, 2015, a jury found Cox Communications liable for willful copyright infringement and ordered the company to pay $25 million in damages to BMG. The court found that Cox could not rely on the safe harbor provisions available to Internet Service Providers under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), because it failed to terminate service to its subscribers who were repeat infringers. As a result, the jury found that Cox contributed to the copyright infringement of its customers and was liable for such infringement.