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Meta must face DMCA claim in US authors' copyright suit, US judge says

( March 7, 2025, 00:26 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms will have to face a claim from US authors that removal of content management information violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), US District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco, California, said. "Meta’s removal of copyright management information is an interference with a property right that is closely related to the 'kind of property-based harms traditionally actionable in copyright,' " he said. But Chhabria dismissed the authors' claim that Meta violated the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) by “pirating” unlicensed versions of their work via BitTorrent protocols, finding it was preempted by federal copyright law. Please see order below: ...

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