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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

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Neither Time nor BuzzFeed sought or obtained authorization from the photographers to do so. Legal Background: Direct and Secondary Liability The Copyright Act gives the author the exclusive right “to do and to authorize” any of the five exclusive rights. See Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. Cherry Auction, Inc. ,