Digital Media Law Blog:  “When a website designer and host and its customer work together to create a website which — oops! — contains unlicensed copyrighted images, who is liable for the infringement? A recent case found that the answer was ‘Both,’ holding the web designer liable for direct infringement and its customer liable for vicarious infringement.  See Corbis Corp. v. Nick Starr, d/b/a Master Maintenance, N.D. Ohio No. 3:07CV3741 (September 2, 2009)

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