After courtroom wins in copyright cases by YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and the now-defunct Veoh, copyright holders who don’t submit proper takedown notices are getting less and less traction in courts. Take for example a recent decision in Wolk v. Eastman Kodak et al., a case where Sheila Wolk, a visual artist, sued Photobucket and its partner Kodak, alleging that her copyrighted illustrations were uploaded to the photo-sharing network without her permission. In a relatively short decision, a judge found that Photobucket is protected by the “safe harbor” of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and therefore can’t be sued for copyright damages.
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