OPINION AND ORDER Plaintiff Lynk Media LLC (“Lynk Media”) brings claims of direct copyright infringement and contributory infringement against Defendant Mediaite, LLC (“Mediaite”). Lynk Media owns the copyrights to three videos, two of which show disruptions at events featuring United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“AOC”) and the other of which captures a physical altercation at a protest outside Gracie Mansion in New York City. Mediaite included each of these videos in articles published on its website without Lynk Media’s authorization. The video of the altercation outside Gracie Mansion was also published on a third-party website, allegedly after Mediaite provided the video for that use. Mediaite has moved to dismiss Lynk Media’s Amended Complaint on several grounds: non-infringement as to two of the videos based on its use of a technological process called “embedding” to include those videos in its articles, its use of two of the videos pursuant to a license from Twitter, fair use with respect to all three videos, and failure to state a claim for contributory infringement as to the video published on the third-party website. For reasons that will be explained, Mediaite’s motion will be denied in its entirety. BACKGROUND For the purposes of Mediaite’s motion to dismiss, the Court accepts well-pleaded allegations in Lynk Media’s Amended Complaint as true and draws all reasonable inferences in Lynk Media’s favor. See Koch v. Christie’s Intern. PLC, 699 F.3d 141, 145 (2d Cir. 2012). Lynk Media is a company that licenses videos from its portfolio for use by online and print publications. (Am. Compl., ECF 16
2, 11-12.) Lynk Media acquired the rights to three videos that were originally created and published by Oliya Fedun, an individual professionally known as “Oliya Scootercaster.” (Id.
