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File Sharing
70 published works
Media Law Prof Blog
Team Behind Internet Site Pirate Bay Stands Trial In Sweden
The founders of the Pirate Bay filesharing website have gone on trial for copyright violation. The Swedish prosecutor is seeking a sentence of up to two years in prison and…
Media Law Prof Blog
Law Profs File Brief in RIAA Downloading Case
Several law professors have filed a brief supporting the position of the only defendant to have gone to trial in a downloading piracy case brought by the RIAA. The profs,…
Media Law Prof Blog
European Parliament Tries To Balance Rights of All Who Use Net
Members of the European Parliament have refused to ban serial file sharers from the Internet in spite of demands that they do so to support the rights both of both…
Media Law Prof Blog
Inadvertent Filesharing
Thomas D. Sydnor, Progress & Freedom Foundation, and Lee Hollaar, University of Utah, have published "Inadvertent Filesharing Revisited: Assessing LimeWire's Responses to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform," as…
The Prior Art
SF Chronicle on RIAA lawsuits: swing and a miss.
By Jan Wolfe
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle fronts the Business section with a piece on the RIAA lawsuits, focusing on a UC Santa Cruz student who has received one of the many thousands…
Media Law Prof Blog
British Police Shut Down Illegal File-Sharing Site After Long Investigation
British police, aided by an Interpol investigation, have successfully shut down a private website called Oink, which permitted invitation-only users to find and share music downloads. The website had been…
The IP Law Blog
“Making Available” is Copyright Infringement in File Sharing Case
By Jeff Pietsch Last week, a judge for the United States District Court in Arizona has granted a summary judgment in favor of recording companies. The judgment finds the defendant, Jeffrey…
The Trademark Blog
In A Related Story, the RIAA Has Announced Formation Of Its Own Navy
The local: Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws.
Media Law Prof Blog
RIAA Sues File Sharing Software Company
The Recording Industry Association of America is suing LimeWire, a company which distributes file-sharing software, for encouraging users to pirate music. Sony, Vivendi, Time-Warner, and EMI filed the lawsuit in…
Media Law Prof Blog
Grokster, KaZaa and Comparative Law
Jane Ginsburg, Columbia University School of Law, and Sam Ricketson, University of Melbourne Faculty of Law, have published "Inducers and Authorisers: A Comparison of the U. S. Supreme Court's Grokster's…