Court Slams Record Companies in New Vimeo/DMCA Ruling (arstechnica.com)

Remember when Capitol Records sued Vimeo over copyright-violating videos? They just lost in court again, when an Appeals court overruled three lower court decisions. Slashdot reader NewYorkCountryLawyer shares the specifics of the Appeals court's findings: [T]he Copyright Office was dead wrong in concluding that pre-1972 sound recordings aren't covered by the DMCA... the judge was wrong to think that Vimeo employees' merely viewing infringing videos was sufficient evidence of "red flag knowledge"... a few sporadic instances of employees being cavalier about copyright law did not amount to a "policy of willful blindness" on the part of the company. "The decision once again affirms that the DMCA extends immunity to a service provider for the infringement of their customers if the service provider removes material at the request of the right holder," writes Ars Technica.

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Re:Shifting the burden

[j-beda]

Of course they would assume every car is stolen. After all, they told us "You wouldn't download a car, would you?", right?

If anyone hasn't seen this PSA from "The IT Crowd", they have missed out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I guess it is probably infinging...