Capitol Records, EMI, and other labels can move forward with a lawsuit against Vimeo, a New York federal judge has ruled. Vimeo is fighting claims that it failed to take down videos using songs by the Beatles, Radiohead, Jay Z, and other artists without paying for a license, saying it's not responsible to vet every video on the site. Judge Ronnie Abrams, though, thinks the company could have known perfectly well about the infringement — after all, its employees uploaded some of the videos.
The lawsuit dates back to 2009, a few years into the rise of "lip dub" videos that synched amateur performances with real recordings of songs. A group of record labels said that Vimeo wasn't just allowing copyrighted music to be posted without...
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