Word: copyright
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that peer-to-peer file-sharing networks could be held liable for inducing their users to commit copyright infringement—even if those same networks could be used to trade non-copyrighted material legally...
...like breaking the law to share it? This peer-to-peer service is legal, because listeners don't actually download any music. Instead, they stream music on their computers that is webcast over the Internet by other members. (The company does have to pay webcasting royalties to copyright holders, and charges some user fees to cover them.) The offerings are listed in the traditional peer-to-peer way, noting artist, album, song title-in this case, the one currently playing-and source. Basic service is free, but limited to 30 minutes of listening a day. For $5 a month...
...does not permit wholesale copying by a commercial organization of works that are still in copyright,” Morris wrote in an e-mail earlier this year. “It is also illegal to make those works available digitally once they have been copied...
...Google spokesperson addressed the potential for copyright infringement by underscoring the corporation’s commitment to working with individual publishers to carefully designate the copyrighted materials...
However, Jonathan Zittrain, faculty co-director of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, expressed none of Morris’s concerns over possible copyright infringement...