Advanced Copyright Law on the Internet

(h) The MP3.com Cases In 2000, the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA), on behalf of 10 of its members, filed ...

The court ruled that the copying by MP3.com of the commercial CDs made out a prima facie case of direct copyright infringement,^ ...

Copyright Act, include the right, within broad limits, to curb the development of such a derivative market by refusing to licens ...

were brought against MP3.com as well. For example, in Sept. of 2001, Isaac, Taylor & Zachary Hanson also sued MP3.com for co ...

for direct liability.^138 Mere ownership of an electronic facility by an OSP that responds automatically to users’ input is not ...

The principle distilled from these cases is a requirement that defendants must actively engage in one of the activities recogniz ...

(m) Parker v. Google In Parker v. Google,^150 pro se plaintiff Gordon Parker was the owner of copyright in an e- book titled “29 ...

channels carried by Cablevision, so that if a customer requested that a particular program be recorded, the appropriate packets ...

In sum, the court concluded that the RS-DVR was more akin to a video-on-demand (VOD) service than to a VCR or other time-shiftin ...

request to a human employee, who then voluntarily operates the copying system to make the copy, and issuing a command directly t ...

the defendants. The defendants created designated servers for newsgroups containing music binary files to increase their retenti ...

loaded the original copies of the software onto Sprint computers and then rebooted the computers, thereby causing the RAM copies ...

The court also denied UMG’s motion for summary judgment with respect to its claims of contributory and vicarious liability. With ...

defendant in making the copies in order to establish direct liability. Here the hotfile.com web site merely allowed users to upl ...

operations or use digital fingerprinting technology to prevent copyright infringement by its users.^190 (s) Perfect 10 v. Megaup ...

websites. Taken together, Perfect 10 has adequately alleged Megaupload has engaged in volitional conduct sufficient to hold it l ...

the default settings caused the Hopper to record the entire primetime window on all four of the major networks every day of the ...

other networks chose to make available during primetime, and Dish recorded the programs only if the user made the initial decisi ...

copy for which it had not paid and using it for AutoHop, Dish harmed Fox’s opportunity to negotiate a value for those copies and ...

defendant.^208 It found that the district court did not abuse its discretion in determining that Fox was unlikely to succeed on ...