Court Helps Record Labels Define KaZaA's 'Shared Folder' in Lawsuit
Date : 2008 04 01 Category : Web News
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Says that "distribution" is the same as "publication" under copyright law in its refusal to dismiss their case against an accused file-sharer.
Yesterday a federal District Court in New York made an important ruling in a longstanding case against a woman accused of illegal file-sharing. Denise Barker is alleged to have have had more than 600 music files in her KaZaA "shared folder" for the purposes of illegally distributing them with others in violation of copyright law.
Her lawyers had argued that simply making music files available in the "shared folder" is not the same as actual distribution and that the plaintiffs had to prove that it actually took place for her to be guilty of violating the Copyright Act. For merely putting music in the "shared folder" is not actual distribution.