Intellectual Property Law

New Matter 2018 SUMMER Volume 43, Number 2

Copyright News

Jo Ardalan

One LLP

N.Y. COURT CONCLUDES THAT PERFECT 10 IS VERY IMPERFECT AND FINDS EMBEDDING A WORK IS AN INFRINGEMENT

In an order strongly criticizing the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.,1 the Southern District of New York in Goldman v. Breitbart News Network, LLC found on summary judgment that embedding a photograph on a website without the owner’s consent violates the owner’s "display right."2 Plaintiff Justin Goldman authored and owned a photograph of Tom Brady that he uploaded to social media.3 Several non-parties then uploaded the photograph to Twitter, where defendants Breitbart News Network, Heavy, and Time, Inc., among others, used "embed code" to make the Brady photo appear on their websites without storing the image on their servers.4

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