Cloudflare Not Liable for Its Users’ Copyright Infringement, Court Rules

guest · Oct 8, 2021

Cloudflare Not Liable for Its Users’ Copyright Infringement, Court Rules
October 8, 2021
https://www.technadu.com/cloudflare...rs-copyright-infringement-court-rules/305597/

USA judge ruled Cloudflare doesn’t contribute to piracy through its copyright-infringing clients.

As a result, the content delivery service is not forced to terminate collaboration with pirating websites.

This ruling comes as a conclusion to the court trial from 2018, when Cloudflare was sued for enabling piracy and copyright infringement.

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Finally, some good news for Cloudflare – US court decided it’s not liable for third-party copyright infringement and doesn’t need to cut off the unlawful websites it serves. In a ruling in the US District Court for the Northern District of California that happened yesterday, Judge Vince Chhabria granted Cloudflare’s motion for summary judgment.

Cloudflare is one of the largest CDN and DDoS protection services globally, so it makes sense that some of its clients are pirate sites. This is why back in 2018, it was sued for contributing to and aiding copyright infringement, facing trial at the California federal court against Mon Cheri Bridals and Maggie Sottero Designs.
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As a response, the defendant said that the plaintiffs base their court trial on a “fundamental misunderstanding” of Cloudflare’s services.

Plaintiffs brought this lawsuit based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Cloudflare’s services, the contributory copyright infringement doctrine, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, all in pursuit of a statutory damages windfall that has nothing to do with the harm they claim to have suffered. […]
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