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File Sharing Lawsuits - Could they be over?
Date : 2008 05 01 Category : Web News
Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technology News
Recent ruling that actual unauthorized distribution must take place and not simply the act of making copyrighted material available could bring an end of P2P lawsuits as we know them.
Yesterday I reported how in Atlantic v. Howell, federal judge Neil V. Wake in Phoenix ruled that simply placing music in KaZaA's "shared folder" does not in itself constitute copyright infringement, that actual unauthorized distribution must be proven.
"Merely making an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted work available to the public does not violate a copyright holder's exclusive right of distribution," wrote judge Neil Wake.