Download or read book MGM V Grokster written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book MGM V Grokster written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book MGM V Grokster written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MGM v. Grokster: hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, July 28, 2005.

Download or read book MGM V Grokster written by Andrew Beckerman-Rodau and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book S Hrg 109 1115 written by U S Government Printing Office (Gpo) and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. Hearings can also be held to explore certain topics or a current issue. It typically takes between two months up to two years to be published. This is one of those hearings.

Download or read book Progress on Point MGM V Grokster written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been editorials all around the country and right across the ideological spectrum praising the decision, lines like "the Court threaded the needle exactly right" and the praise came from the Washington Post and the Washington Times, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times and the San Jose Mercury News , the Boston Globe, the Boston American Statesman, the Chicago Tri. [...] The only question I leave for the copyright legislative experts here - is there anything that needs to be done to make it easier for the content providers really to offer all of the music to everybody? That's a difficult question and I don't expect answers but it's something to think about because I think we will really drive the nail in the coffin of illegitimate downloads if we can put the servi. [...] I get into ethical discussions with students on this and a lot of them are willing to subscribe to the idea that content holders have a duty to put this stuff up on the internet and spare customers the cost and inconvenience of having to pay for the physical delivery, and that once that's done it's unethical and immoral for the customers to to steal it. [...] Broadcast Flag, I think, is a great example of something where the FCC made a ruling, the court struck down the jurisdiction of the FCC, and it has nothing to do with the fact that we scored a legislative victory early in the session on the narrow bill or on the Grokster case. [...] But I think that's all we're talking about and I think we're happy - it's hard for a lawyer to talk about happiness with a decision - but in terms of the value of the decision, I think, and again, I'm not speaking for the tech community, but I'm sort of guessing that many in the tech community were not comfortable with the allegations by the content industry against Grokster and Streamcast.

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Download or read book MGM V Grokster Amicus Brief of Professors Peter S Menell David Nimmer Robert P Merges and Justin Hughes written by Peter S. Menell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case turns on whether the Supreme Court's 1984 decision in Sony conclusively resolves at the summary judgment stage the present dispute - involving strikingly different technology that was unimaginable at the time that the Sony case was decided. Although some of the language used in the Sony decision - stating that providers of technology that is capable of substantial noninfringing uses cannot be subject to contributory infringement liability - appears to predetermine the outcome of this matter, such a far-reaching, prospective rule goes well beyond the language or intent of the Copyright Act and misconstrues the proper judicial function in copyright adjudication. Over the course of nearly two centuries, courts have evolved, with tacit legislative consent, a rich infringement jurisprudence that balances a range of considerations on a case-by-case basis. This jurisprudence has long recognized indirect as well as direct infringement. In its comprehensive reform and codification of copyright law in the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress purposefully reaffirmed the continued applicability and evolution of this jurisprudence. At the same time, Congress established various express immunities, compulsory licenses, and other categorical limitations on liability. It would be incongruous, therefore, for courts to read additional categorical immunities into the Copyright Act's liability regime. Congress has since added numerous other limitations to copyright liability, none of which bar a finding of infringement in the present case. Several amendments prohibit trafficking of particular classes of technology capable of substantial non-infringing uses.The Sony Court derived its “staple article of commerce” standard by analogizing to the Patent Act. Transplanting such a rule from the Patent Act, however, misapprehends critical differences between the two legal regimes. Whereas patent law seeks to promote technological innovation and evolved a staple article of commerce doctrine primarily out of concern for unduly expanding patent scope, copyright law seeks to promote cultural and social progress, manifesting a more cautious stance toward technological dissemination, particularly where a technology threatens widespread piracy of expressive works. Furthermore, amendments to the Copyright Act since the Sony decision demonstrate that Congress does not believe that dual-use technology - i.e., technology that is capable of both infringing and substantial non-infringing uses - should be treated as inviolate under copyright law. Rather, Congress has shown that it sees a need to balance the efficacy of the copyright system for promoting creative expression against social interests in technological innovation and consumer autonomy.Consequently, this Court should clarify that indirect copyright infringement liability requires a balancing of factors based on the protection of copyright owners' rights and other recognized interests and concerns undergirding copyright law. Adverse effects of potential liability on incentives to innovate can and should be considered in such a balance, but no judicially established safe harbors should be recognized or imposed. Any such prospective, categorical safe harbors are properly within the exclusive power of Congress. Until such time as Congress establishes a staple article of commerce immunity to copyright liability, courts should continue to evolve balanced infringement standards that respond to new technologies guided by the text, structure, and purposes of copyright law.For the present case this means that the Ninth Circuit's decision to affirm summary judgment dismissing the plaintiffs' cause of action should be overturned and the case remanded for a full trial applying an appropriate balancing test. This Court should clarify that copyright liability extends to acts inducing copyright infringement and that contributory and vicarious liability should be judged on the basis of traditional criteria, including considerations of causation, knowledge, and intent. Given the policies animating copyright law, the standard for indirect liability should balance the harm to copyright owners against adverse effects on consumers from the loss of non-infringing uses from dual-use technologies. Such a balance should consider the full range of factors, including the relative magnitudes (present and foreseeable) of infringing and non-infringing use, the degree of control exercised by manufacturers and distributors of means for reproducing and distributing works of authorship, the intent of such enterprises, the extent to which noninfringing uses can be continued without the technologies at issue, and the extent to which copyright owners can limit unauthorized uses of their works (without undue expense or loss of market). Such an approach would continue the judiciary's vital role as a flexible and responsive institution for addressing evolving challenges to the copyright system. Until such time as Congress expressly enacts a safe harbor in the Copyright Act analogous to patent law's staple article of commerce doctrine, the distributor of technology that is merely capable of substantial non-infringing uses (but is in fact used predominantly to facilitate massive infringement) should not be categorically immune from copyright liability.

Download or read book The Grokster Dead End written by Bryan H. Choi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MGM v. Grokster decision in 2005 left secondary copyright infringement in a state of uncertainty. Introducing a new theory of inducement created the confusion of a new test, with some worrying that the inducement standard was overbroad and would deter the development of valuable and perfectly legitimate software applications, and others complaining of the opposite problem that the test was impractical and that evidence of intent would generally be impossible to ascertain. In addition, the Court explicitly refused to address the capable of substantial noninfringing use test articulated in the Sony-Betamax case, which the Seventh and Ninth Circuits had interpreted differently. Instead, three justices wrote a separate opinion to agree with one interpretation while three justices supported the other interpretation. Yet, even as the legal world struggles to reorient itself around Grokster and the new contours of secondary liability law, file-sharing technology has already moved on. In particular, two technologies - YouSendIt and BitTorrent - demonstrate a trend of disaggregation that is rapidly driving secondary liability remedies into a dead-end, as the courts become increasingly uncomfortable striking down technologies that approach the line where copyright interests no longer outweigh innovation interests. In particular, if Napster represented a system with centralized discovery and centralized delivery of content, Grokster only decentralized the delivery element. Search functionality was still provided in a single application that could be downloaded and installed to the desktop. In contrast, YouSendIt has centralized the delivery element, providing centralized servers from which all downloads occur, but it has disaggregated the discovery element by providing obscure download links and no search functionality. Finally, BitTorrent disaggregates both discovery and delivery, as it represents a distributed file transfer technology similar to Grokster, but without the search application that made Grokster look reprehensible to the courts. As this trend of disaggregation continues, copyright owners attempting to enforce secondary copyright infringement against these new technologies will find themselves running up against both practical and legal difficulties. Not only will it become even harder to track infringing activities, but the courts will become less willing to apply the legal rules in favor of copyright interests - as was evidenced by the Supreme Court's evasion of the Sony-Betamax test in Grokster.

Download or read book Copyright and Other Fairy Tales written by Helle Porsdam and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present state of copyright law and the way in which it threatens the remix of culture and creativity is a shared concern of the contributors to this unique book. Whether or not to remain within the underlying regime of intellectual property law, and what sort of reforms are needed if we do decide to remain within this regime, are fundamental questions that form the subtext for their discussions. - Publisher.

Download or read book Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc Et Al V Grokster Ltd Et Al written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Code Wars written by Rebecca Giblin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'With a combination of acute observation, close analysis and clear-headed honesty, Rebecca Giblin leads the reader to share her conclusion that there is no legislative, judicial, commercial or technical panacea for copyright infringement which P2P software facilitates, but that even now it is not too late to improve the manner in which the rights-owning and distribution sectors address the challenges that P2P poses.' Jeremy Phillips, Olswang, and Intellectual Property Institute, UK Code Wars recounts the legal and technological history of the first decade of the P2P file sharing era, focusing on the innovative and anarchic ways in which P2P technologies evolved in response to decisions reached by courts with regard to their predecessors. With reference to US, UK, Canadian and Australian secondary liability regimes, this insightful book develops a compelling new theory to explain why a decade of ostensibly successful litigation failed to reduce the number, variety or availability of P2P file sharing applications and highlights ways the law might need to change if it is to have any meaningful effect in future. A genuine interdisciplinary study, spanning both the law and information technology fields, this book will appeal to intellectual property and technology academics and researchers internationally. Historians and sociologists studying this fascinating period, as well as undergraduate and graduate students who are working on research projects in related fields, will also find this book a stimulating read.

Download or read book Intellectual Property Rights written by Birgitte Andersen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents an impressive line-up of experts in the increasingly relevant field of law and economics, an area that has particular relevance to the issue of IP rights. . . an excellent collection of cutting-edge research. . . an essential read for those interested in the economic impact of IPRs. . . a highly recommended collection. Andrés Guadamuz, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Intellectual property policy has been framed too commonly in terms of refining and strengthening legal rights. As intellectual property grows in scope and importance, the limitations of this narrow approach have become all too apparent. This important collection puts the policy problems in proper perspective by assembling the work of leading scholars and researchers who examine intellectual property rights in terms of how they actually work in legal, economic, and institutional contexts. Brian Kahin, University of Michigan and formerly White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, US For a long time we have thought about IPRs as a policy instrument to avoid a "tragedy of commons". The essays collected by Birgitte Andersen show that in the XXI century economy there is another, and so far underestimated, danger: a sort of "tragedy of markets" where every knowledge or cultural expression becomes privatised. This will generate a greater knowledge and culture divide, with an increased corporate dominance. Those who are afraid of the dangers of exclusion and believe that open access to science, technology and culture will lead us in a more intriguing world will find convincing arguments and explanations in this volume. Daniele Archibugi, Italian National Research Council, Italy There is a growing need to understand the role of the regulation of intellectual property rights (IPRs), in order not only to achieve economic performance, growth and sustainable development at corporate, sectoral and global levels, but also to provide a higher quality of life for communities worldwide. Intellectual Property Rights is cutting edge in addressing current debates affecting businesses, industry sectors and society today, and in focusing not only on the enabling welfare effects of IPR systems, but also on some of the possible adverse effects of IPR systems. The main areas covered in the book are: the global commons in an era of corporate dominance and privatisation of the public domain, including science, culture, and healthcare under TRIPS the rationales for IPRs, and the importance of an appropriate design of an IPR regime in achieving its objectives opening the black box of IPR offices and critically reviewing how they affect economic performance in both theory and practice coordinating the institutions (state versus sector institutions, knowledge networks, innovation systems) creating and extracting financial and non-financial value from patents and copyrights. This book challenges the existing mainstream thinking and analytical frameworks dominating the theoretical literature on IPRs within economics, management, politics, law and regulation theory. It is relevant for policymakers, business analysts, industrial and business economists, researchers and students.

Download or read book Confirmation Hearing on Donald B Verrilli Jr of Connecticut Nominee to be Solicitor General of the United States Virginia A Seitz of Virginia Nominee to be Assistant Attorney General Office of Legal Counsel U S Department of Justice and Denise E O Donnell of New York Nominee to be Director Bureau of Justice Assistance U S Department of Justice written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... A captivating look into some of the most cherished memories of the prophets--the earliest moments of romances that endured a lifetime."--

Download or read book Peers Pirates and Persuasion written by John Logie and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Logie examines the rhetoric of the ongoing debate over peer-to-peer technologies, in particular Napster and its successors. The Grokster case, he contends, has already produced the chilling effects that will stifle the innovative spirit at the heart of the Internet and networked communities.

Download or read book Computer Science Illuminated written by Nell B. Dale and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2007 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers students on the dynamic and diverse field of computer science. [In the text, the authors] provide [an] overview of the many aspects of the discipline from a generic view point. Separate program language chapters are available as bundle items for those instructors who would like to explore a particular programming language with their students. The many layers of computing are thoroughly explained beginning with the information layer, working through the hardware, programming, operating systems, application, and communication layers, and ending with a discussion on the limitations of computing. [It is] for introductory computing and computer science courses. [It is also for] computer science majors with a solid foundation for further study, and offers non majors a comprehensive and complete introduction to computing.

Download or read book Ethics and Technology written by Herman T. Tavani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics and Technology, 5th Edition, by Herman Tavani introduces students to issues and controversies that comprise the relatively new field of cyberethics. This text examines a wide range of cyberethics issues--from specific issues of moral responsibility that directly affect computer and information technology (IT) professionals to broader social and ethical concerns that affect each of us in our day-to-day lives. The 5th edition shows how modern day controversies created by emerging technologies can be analyzed from the perspective of standard ethical concepts and theories.