In Hendrickson v. eBay , a federal judge in Los Angeles has held that the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect eBay from secondary liability for copyright infringement by its sellers. While this ruling provides some comfort to auction sites, it is possible that a different result could be reached in other cases where the facts may not be so favorable to the Web site.
September 10, 2001 at 12:00 AM
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In the first case of its kind, Hendrickson v. eBay, a federal judge in Los Angeles has held that the “Safe Harbor” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) protect eBay from secondary liability for copyright infringement by its sellers. While this ruling provides some comfort to auction sites, it is possible that a different result could be reached in other cases where the facts may not be so favorable.
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