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Veoh: Increased Protection for Service Providers, Or a Trapdoor?

By Steven R. Masur and David J. Mazur
January 30, 2009

The August 2008 ruling in Io Group, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc., No. C06-03926 HRL, 2008 WL 4065872, (N.D. Cal. Aug 27, 2008), has been widely heralded as a win for online service providers in the legal maelstrom surrounding social media. Veoh is an Internet TV platform, similar to YouTube, that hosts user-uploaded content. When clips from adult movies owned by Io Group appeared on Veoh's network, rather than issuing Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices to Veoh requesting that their content be removed, Io went to court with a copyright infringement suit. But Io Group lost.

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