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

About this episode

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...

People in this episode

Host: John

Guests: Todd Anten, Owen F. Roberts

Topics covered

• copyright dispute
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• safe harbor provisions
• Second Circuit appeals
• music industry

Keywords

• copyright
• DMCA
• safe harbor
• Second Circuit
• music publishers
• recording companies
• legal dispute

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Quinn Emanuel, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Second Circuit, music publishers, recording companies

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