Technology,
Civil Litigation,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Mar. 28, 2022
Facebook copyright class action transferred to Northern District
The complaint, filed by a class photographers, claims “Facebook recklessly disregarded that no third party ever obtained a license or permission from the copyright owner [...] and elevated copyrighted content by causing third party website publisher embedders to display that content.”
The latest effort to challenge the “server test” precedent established by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has appeared in the form of a class action filed by a group of photographers accusing Meta, formerly Facebook, of “rampant copyright infringement,” because of embedding.
The complaint, transferred Thursday to California’s Northern District from the Southern District of New York, claims, “Facebook recklessly disregarded that no t...
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