January 13, 2025
The Second Circuit said Monday it won't revive copyright claims from a group of music rights holders over lip-sync videos posted on Vimeo by its users, saying a safe harbor under federal copyright law protects the website.
May 28, 2021
More than a decade after Capitol Records first sued the online video platform Vimeo for copyright infringement over lip-sync videos, the case is somehow still going — with a federal judge ruling Friday that Vimeo is shielded from many claims but not fully off the hook.
April 02, 2018
A year after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive infringement claims from Capitol Records against video website Vimeo over pre-1972 music copyrights, a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday mostly rejected accusations of unfair competition based on the same old songs.
July 18, 2017
After losing a key ruling on so-called pre-1972 records at the Second Circuit, Capitol Records is now aiming to hold Vimeo liable for the same songs under a theory of unfair competition — a claim the video sharing website on Monday called “a re-release of an old record with a new album cover.”
October 17, 2013
Capitol Records LLC on Wednesday blasted video-sharing service Vimeo's attempt to raise an immediate, limited appeal to the Second Circuit over whether pre-1972 recordings fall under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's safe harbor for copyright infringement, telling a New York federal court Vimeo's request is "disingenuous."
October 03, 2013
Video-sharing service Vimeo asked a New York federal judge Wednesday to give it the chance to file an immediate appeal to the Second Circuit on the hot-button issue of whether federal safe harbor for copyright infringement covers pre-1972 recordings.
September 19, 2013
Video-sharing service Vimeo lost a bid Wednesday to dismiss Capitol Records' copyright lawsuit over user-generated lip-synch videos when a federal judge ruled that some of the videos might not qualify for safe-harbor protection.