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Court: Embedding Videos Legal

  • GigaOm, Friday, August 3, 2012 12:03 PM

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that embedding an infringing video does not violate copyright laws. “The court sided with the video bookmarking site myVidster, which had been sued by the gay porn production company Flava Works in 2010,” GigaOm reports. “Flava Works obtained a preliminary injunction against myVidster with a lower court ruling in 2011, but 7th Court judge Richard Posner threw out that decision Thursday.” That said, the video bookmarking site isn’t off the hook completely, GigaOm notes. “Posner found that a previously offered caching feature could still make the site liable.”
 

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