United States Ninth Circuit

Judgment for plaintiffs in suit alleging that the services offered and websites maintained by the defendants induced third parties to download infringing copies of the plaintiffs' copyrighted works, is: 1) affirmed in part, where a) defendants were liable for contributory copyright infringement on an inducement theory, and b) defendants were not entitled to protection from liability under any of the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; but 2) reversed and modified in part, as to the district court's permanent injunction, because provisions of the injunction were too vague to meet the notice requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(d), and certain provisions were unduly burdensome.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2013
• Published 03/21/2013

Judges

• BERZON

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel