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3 U. P.R. Bus. L.J. 255 (2012)
Sharing Media on Social Networks: Infringement by Linking

handle is hein.journals/uprblj3 and id is 247 raw text is: SHARING MEDIA ON SOCIAL NETWORKS: INFRINGEMENT BY LINKING? JEAN G. VIDAL FONT* I. Introduction .................................................................................................................................255 II. R ig h ts a n d R e m e d ie s ...............................................................................................................2 5 7 A. Exclusive Rights in Copyright..........................................................................................257 1 . R e p r o d u ctio n .....................................................................................................................2 5 7 2 . T h e R ight to D istrib u te ...................................................................................................2 5 9 3. T he D isplay and Perform R ight...................................................................................260 B . R e m e d ie s .................................................................................................................................2 6 1 1. Vicarious Liability............................................................................................................262 2. C ontributory Infringem ent...........................................................................................262 3 . In frin gem ent by Lin kin g ................................................................................................2 6 5 III. Perfect 10 and In-Frame Links ..........................................................................................267 A. The Case at the District Court .........................................................................................267 B. Court of Appeals ...................................................................................................................269 IV. Facebook, In-Frame Linking, and User Inducement: Secondary Liability?......271 A. Background on Facebook and the Share Feature ................................................271 1 . F a ceb o o k : W h at is it? ......................................................................................................2 7 1 2. Shared Content: How Can It Be Seen and Controlled?.......................................272 V. Linking Content: When Sharing Becomes Infringing and What Can Be Done ...............................................................................................................................................274 A. Secondary Liability by Linking .......................................................................................274 B . Com pulsory Licensing: Solution?...................................................................................276 1. INTRODUCTION Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter have become so popular that they are now used as verb tenses in the same way Google is used to describe an online search.' Facebook, for one, claims over 901 million monthly active users.2 One of the most popular features that Facebook has is the share feature, which allows users to post web content * Attorney at Cancio, Nadal, Rivera & Diaz P.S.C. L.L.M. in Intellectual Property from the George Washington University Law School (2009). J.D., Magna Cum Laude, from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law (2007). 1 As in Ifacebooked you but I couldn't find you, Did you twitter about it?, etc. 2 FACEBOOK, http://newsroom.fb.com/content/default.aspx?NewsAreald=22 (last updated Mar. 2012).

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