Supreme Court Rejects Perfect 10 Case
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will not hear a case involving an online publisher known as Perfect 10 that claims credit card companies are enabling the Internet piracy of its pictures of nude models. The firm said in court filings that its business has been harmed by pirate sites, many of them overseas, which have used its images without permission.
Perfect 10 sued several intermediaries, including Google, Amazon.com, MasterCard and the Visa International Service Association. The lawsuit against Visa and MasterCard was previously dismissed by a district court and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The financial firms argued in their brief that Perfect 10's claims of infringement would further "a radical new theory that would impose substantial liabilities on a wide variety of enterprises for providing services that may be described as 'critical support' to infringers, regardless of whether the services specifically involve or promote the infringing conduct."
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