Addressing copyright infringement issues, the US Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's
summary judgment in defendants' favor on direct, vicarious and
contributory infringement claims. Perfect 10, Inc. v. Giganews,
Inc., et al., Case Nos. 15-55500; -55523; -56026 (9th Cir.,
Jan. 23, 2017) (Nelson, J).
Giganews owns and operates several Usenet servers.
"Usenet" is a collection of people and organizations
whose computers are connected to one another and can therefore
exchange messages. Giganews provides its subscribers access to
content that Giganews stores on its own servers, as well as content
stored on other Usenet providers' servers. The content offered
through the Giganews servers is almost entirely provided by Usenet
users. Livewire Services (together with Giganews, the defendants)
provides its subscribers with access to the Usenet content stored
on Giganews' servers but does not own any Usenet servers.
