Vicky
vickysfeir.bsky.social
Vicky
@vickysfeir.bsky.social
Mum to Paul, Nicolas and Cats. Senior Strategy Counsel @Google, former legal director at Twitter, UC Berkeley Law, animal, wine and opera lover. Opinions are my own. She/ her.
Reposted by Vicky
They had to go to *discovery* over this.

Copyright damages are *staggering,* like bankruptcy level for any ordinary platform handling user video posts at scale. This is financially scarier to platforms than anything 230 immunizes.

Ruling was last week.

law.justia.com/cases/federa...
Capitol Records v. Vimeo, No. 21-2949 (2d Cir. 2025)
Plaintiffs, rightsholders of musical recordings affiliated with EMI, sued Vimeo, Inc. and Connected Ventures, LLC for copyright infringement, alleging that Vimeo users uploaded videos containing their...
law.justia.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM