Contributory copyright infringement: Can you ever know what you don’t know?
By EsqSocial Corporation 19/05/21
At its core, indirect copyright infringement requires direct infringement, plus an indirect infringer who knew of it, and either materially contributed to or induced the direct infringement. But what level of “knowledge” of the direct infringement must the indirect infringer possess? In a photographer’s lawsuit against image-sharing social media company Pinterest, a federal court in California dismissed a photographer’s indirect infringement claim because he did not allege that the company knew...
By: Thompson Coburn LLP