BIG ENTERTAINMENT NEEDS A SEQUEL TO THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FLOP: MGM V. GROKSTER
In: Georgia Law Review, Jg. 41 (2007), S. 579
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I. Introduction " '[M]eaningless.' " That is what the former head of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) called the Supreme Court's recent and much anticipated decision addressing illegal online file sharing. 1 Big Entertainment (the coming together of Hollywood and the music recording industry) 2 after facing repeated defeats in the lower courts, 3 was looking to the highest Court in the land to stop the rampant copyright infringement that showed no signs of quitting. 4 The Supreme Court came through, but not completely, and ultimately left the entertainment industry with a shallow "public relations" victory. 5 Today, Big Entertainment stands at a crossroads. With its previous big-budget legal showdowns not making a dent in online piracy, 6 Big Entertainment must entertain writing a new script for the next time it appears on the courtroom stage, a showdown that is decidedly coming soon to a federal district court near you. 7 Big Entertainment, in this saga of good versus evil, relies upon the U.S. Copyright Act 8 and principles of secondary liability law 9 to label those who infringe and the technology that helps infringe as evil. The saga between the entertainment and technology universes began a long, long time ago-almost thirty years as of publication of this Note. At that time, Hollywood attempted to squash an emerging technology (Sony's new video tape recorder) that threatened its revenue stream from copyrighted broadcasts. 10 Departing from statutory copyright law, instead of pursuing the ...
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BIG ENTERTAINMENT NEEDS A SEQUEL TO THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FLOP: MGM V. GROKSTER
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Desai, Anuj |
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Zeitschrift: | Georgia Law Review, Jg. 41 (2007), S. 579 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2007 |
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