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UMG Recordings, Inc., et al. v. Veoh Networks, Inc., et al. Veoh Networks, Inc. We won an important legal victory for Veoh in a landmark case brought by Universal Music Group (UMG) for alleged direct and indirect copyright infringement for allegedly permitting third-party users to share user-generated video that contains musical performances. In this case, the court denied UMG's motion for partial summary judgment after UMG sought to prevent Veoh from asserting a “safe harbor” defense against copyright infringement. The Central District of California found the four Veoh software functions challenged by UMG to fall within the section 512(c) safe harbor and rejected UMG’s contentions that Veoh’s copying, processing, and offering access to uploaded video content disqualified Veoh from safe harbor immunity. In doing so, th

Io Group, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc. Veoh Networks, Inc. Winston scored a major victory for its client Veoh in the Northern District of California. In a case of first impression, the court held that Veoh, a video sharing website, was entitled to the safe harbor from Io’s copyright claims under section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which protects online service providers that merely store content at the direction of their users. Io argued that Veoh was not merely storing user content, but converting the content into new formats and making it easy to locate. Io also argued that Veoh did not reasonably implement a repeat infringer policy, that Veoh should have known that Io’s content was on its service and infringing, and that Veoh had the ability to control infringement on its ser

Perfect 10 v. VISA and MasterCard MasterCard International Incorporated Winston & Strawn represented MasterCard Inc. in a lawsuit brought by Perfect 10, a Web site and magazine publisher.

Perfect 10 v. Google Inc. Google, Inc. Winston & Strawn represented Google Inc. in a copyright, trademark, and publicity law challenge alleging direct, contributory, and vicarious liability theories brought by Perfect 10, a Web site and magazine publisher. Perfect 10 claimed that Google's method of providing Web searches and image searches to the public, as well as its practice of selling advertising space tied to key words used by consumers in searches, are a violation of the copyright, trademark, and publicity rights claimed by Perfect 10. Our attorneys defended against Perfect 10's motion for a broad preliminary injunction. Google prevailed on most grounds but the District Court found for Perfect 10 on one ground. In November 2006, one of our attorneys argued for Google befor

Significant Cases of Andrew P. Bridges Andrew Bridges concentrates his practice on litigation with respect to trademark, copyright, advertising, consumer protection, unfair competition, trade secrets, Internet regulation, and media law.

Precision Consulting v. Virsa Systems, Inc. Virsa Systems, Inc. We represented Virsa Systems, a provider of software programs for monitoring and securing corporate computer systems, in a lawsuit brought by Precision Consulting in the Southern District of California.

Huntsman et al. v. Soderbergh et al. ClearPlay, Inc. We defended ClearPlay against copyright infringement claims brought by eight major motion picture studios, and against trademark infringement claims brought by 16 major Hollywood directors and the Directors Guild of America.