A U.S. district court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by adult website operators against tube site Eporner, even though Eporner is based outside the United States.
In a case that sets a concerning precedent for content producers worried about online piracy, the U.S. Supreme Court refused yesterday to take up an adult content copyright holder’s appeal of a lower court decision that U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over foreign copyright infringers.
A three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel issued an unusual set of four separate opinions yesterday in a copyright enforcement case involving AMA Multimedia in the U.S. and the Poland-based owners of upload site ePorner.com, highlighting the complex intricacies of trying to enforce digital copyrights across international jurisdictions.
