(United States Ninth Circuit) - In a copyright dispute arising out of photographs posted online on defendant's social media website,the district court's summary judgment that defendant was entitled protected by the secure harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is reversed where: 1) the secure harbor set forth in 17 U.
S.
C. section 512(c) would apply if the photographs were posted at the direction of users; 2) defendant posted the photographs after a team of volunteer moderators, led by an employee of the defendant, and reviewed and approved them; 3) the common law of agency applied to the defendant's secure harbor defense; and 4) there were genuine factual disputes regarding whether the moderators were the defendant's agents.
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