Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 14 Apr 2010
A party who made copies of music recordings and shared them with other parties on a peer-to-peer file-sharing network is not protected by the defense of fair use, a district court ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 14 Apr 2010
A college student found liable for copyright infringement for making digital copies of copyrighted phonorecords and sharing them on a P2P file-sharing network is not entitled to the mitigation of statutory damages under Copyright Act § 504(c)(2) for innocent infringement, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 14 Apr 2010
The operator of a file-sharing network that utilized the BitTorrent file-sharing technology is secondarily liable for inducing copyright infringement by users of the network, a district court ruled.