Court rejects RIAA’s ‘making available’ piracy argument
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Chris Heath
In Atlantic v. Howell, Judge Neil V. Wake denied the labels’ motion for summary judgment in a 17-page decision (PDF), allowing the suit to proceed to trial. The argument–that merely the act of making music files available for download constituted copyright infringement–has been the basis for the Recording Industry Association of America’s legal battle against online music piracy.
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