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Intellectual Property

Jan. 14, 2005

Secondary Liability Expansion Raises Significant Legal Issues

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Lisa A. Freitas - As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to refine the scope of secondary liability for copyright infringement in the closely watched case of MGM v. Grokster , 380 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. 2004), (certiorari granted, 125 S.Ct. 868 (2004)), a recent decision raises the prospect of potential expansion of secondary liability to a related - but independent - statutory arena: violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

        
Focus Column

Intellectual Property

By Lisa A. Freitas

        
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