A U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued in March has settled a question that has circulated among platform operators and developers for years: whether a service provider can be held liable for copyright infringement committed by its users without evidence of intent to contribute to that infringement. The answer, per the Court’s opinion in Cox v. Sony, is no. Liability requires conscious, culpable conduct. The standard endorsed by the Court is the same one advocated in … More → The post GitHub lays out copyright liability changes and upcoming DMCA review for developers appeared first on Help Net Security.