Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Fung

Columbia Pictures, Inc. v. Fung
Court	United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Full case name	Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Fung
Decided	March 21, 2013
Court membership
Judge(s) sitting	Harry Pregerson, Raymond C. Fisher and Marsha Berzon
Keywords
contributory copyright infringement, Safe Harbor, DMCA

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Fung 710 F.3d 1020 No. 10-55946, was a United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit case in which seven film studios including Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Disney and Twentieth Century Fox sued Gary Fung, the owner of isoHunt Web Technologies, Inc., for contributory infringement of their copyrighted works. The panel affirmed in part and vacated in part the decision of United States District Court for the Central District of California that the services and websites offered by isoHunt Web Technologies allowed third parties to download infringing copies of Columbia's works. Ultimately, Fung had "red flag knowledge" of the infringing activity on his systems, and therefore IsoHunt was held ineligible for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act § 512(c) safe harbor.^[1][2]