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Universal Music Group was dealt a heavy loss today in its long-running copyright lawsuit against Veoh, a now-defunct video hosting site, with a federal judge upholding a previous ruling that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor provision protected Veoh from liability when users uploaded videos that infringed on UMG’s intellectual property.

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