Ninth Circuit Aligns with Second Circuit on DMCA Safe Harbor Reasoning | Practical Law
In UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Shelter Capital Partners, Inc., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals withdrew its December 20, 2011 opinion and filed a superseding opinion, which is largely the same but clarifies the reasoning supporting its decision that the Section 512(c) safe harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) applied to Veoh Networks insulating it from copyright liability based on its users' activity.