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Credit Card Companies Cannot Be Held Liable for Customer
Infringements
California - In a ruling the Electronic Frontier Foundation
hailed as a step forward, the United States District Court for the Northern
District of California ruled today that Visa and several other credit card
companies would not be held liable for the copyright infringements of its
business customers. The case was brought by Perfect 10, an adult website that
accused several credit card companies of copyright infringement because they
were providing financial transaction services for sites containing allegedly
infringing images. Rather than suing the alleged infringers,
Perfect 10 sued their financial service providers for contributory infringement.
Judge James Ware dismissed the case, citing
the companies' inability to control the content of the sites with which they do
business....lawyers
for the defendant showed confidence in the ruling.