Big Music and Big Movies will square off once again with Internet file-sharing services Grokster and Morpheus today in a California courtroom over what the “bigs” say is rampant copyright infringement taking place on those networks. A lower court dismissed contentions that the owners of the services should be held responsible for copyright infringements perpetrated on their networks. Now the industry hopes a federal court of appeals in Pasadena will take a more favorable view of its arguments and topple the lower court’s ruling.
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Landmark P2P Case Back in Court Today
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. February 3, 2004 07:23 AMBig Music and Big Movies will square off once again with Internet file-sharing services Grokster and Morpheus today in a California courtroom over what the “bigs” say is rampant copyright infringement taking place on those networks. A lower court dismissed contentions that the owners of the services should be held responsible for copyright infringements perpetrated on their networks. Now the industry hopes a federal court of appeals in Pasadena will take a more favorable view of its arguments and topple the lower court’s ruling.