Adult Video Company ALS, Data Storage Firms at Odds in Copyright Dispute

Adult video and images company ALS Scan and computer storage companies Steadfast and Cloudflare are opposing rival summary judgment motions in ALS' copyright infringement complaint against the defendant data firms. Steadfast hasn't adopted or reasonably implemented a termination policy for repeat copyright infringers, since it continues to provide storage services to imagebam.com and its subpages even after receiving more than 1,500 infringement notices on that site, said pornography company ALS Scan in a docket 16-cv-5051 opposition (in Pacer) Friday to Steadfast's motion for summary judgment. ALS Scan said Steadfast doesn't get safe harbor protection for copyright infringement since it didn't terminate imagebam.com. In opposition (in Pacer) Friday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, ALS argued against Cloudflare's motion for summary judgment, arguing the data storage company won't act on infringement notices, or forward email notices of infringement to hosts or site owners, and that it doesn't follow up on such email notices to ascertain whether the infringing content was removed. Cloudflare's opposition (in Pacer) Friday to ALS' motion for summary judgment said ALS can't establish a contributory infringement claim. Cloudflare said that unlike virtually all copyright claimants with which it has worked, ALS refuses to use its "simple and accurate" process for complaint processing, relying instead on "unworkable and defective" email communications.