Quinn Emanuel Protects DMCA’s Core Safe Harbor Provisions From Overreach

Quinn Emanuel Protects DMCA’s Core Safe Harbor Provisions From Overreach

March 26, 2026 · 22 min

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The episode discusses a significant copyright dispute involving the DMCA's safe harbor provisions with insights from legal experts at Quinn Emanuel.

John is joined by Todd Anten, partner in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office and co-chair of the firm’s Trademark, Copyright, and Trade Secret practices, and Owen F. Roberts, partner in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office. They discuss a sixteen-year copyright dispute involving two appeals to the Second Circuit that centered on the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provision. The plaintiffs were major music publishers and recording companies that own the copyrights to some o...

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