Risk of joint liability

As a general rule, social media sites offer copyrights holders a whole host of ways to contact them and flag issues in order to limit their risk of joint liability. For example, YouTube provides an automatic detection system for content which violates copyright known...

Transmission of a work via social media

The controversy surrounding the question of whether the transmission of a work via social media violates the right of distribution has very little impact in practice. If we consider that the right of distribution only concerns physical copies, then the transmission of...