Ninth Circuit Rules Against Perfect 10 in Copyright Case

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed Perfect 10 its latest legal defeat by recognizing that copyright plaintiffs must show "volitional conduct," or causation, when claiming a tech service infringes its copyrighted material. The subject of the 9th Circuit's latest opinion is Perfect 10's battle with Giganews, an online service provider of message exchange Usenet.

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