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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Sep. 5, 2007

Picture Perfect

Focus Column - By Mitchell Zimmerman - A string of recent lawsuits by a publisher of online adult photographs may end up defining what constitutes secondary liability in the world of Internet copyright infringements.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Mitchell Zimmerman

      In the 1940s, Jehovah's Witnesses, tenaciously litigious in defense of free expression, generated a half-dozen Supreme Court decisions that came to define First Amendment rights in the 20th century. With comparable persistence, but in the service of arguably less lofty interests, erotic-photo publisher Perfect 10 has fought a series of battles that may delineate the scope of secondary liabili...

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