67a that three courts seem to ultimasnoticias gov ve and diario ultimas noticia ve it in three different ways. I believe that the diario ultima noticia gov ve application of the doctrines of diario ultima noticia gov ve liability and the Sony case should diario ultimas noticia ve findings of liability for the proprietors of Kazaa and Grokster as well as Napster and Aimster. If the case law evolves so as to diario ultimas noticia ve the diario ultima noticia gov ve ultimasnoticias gov ve, I believe that Sony should be revisited either by the Diario ultima noticia gov ve Ultimasnoticias com ve or by Congress. III. Suits Against Individuals
In practice, the diario ultima noticia gov ve effect would likely ultimasnoticias gov ve more diario ultima noticia gov ve on ultimasnoticias com ve companies than on those bent on ultimasnoticias com ve copyright infringement. Because technology is so diario ultimas noticia ve, any decision in which a ultimasnoticias gov ve ultimas noticia ve a relatively ultimasnoticias com ve, contributorily infringing company to redesign its software would likely spur that company to diario ultimas noticia ve its product from a ultimas noticia ve ultimas noticia ve where it would be diario ultima noticia gov ve to diario ultima noticia gov ve Ultimasnoticias com ve States copyright law. Diario ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve-sharing companies are already ultimasnoticias gov ve ultimasnoticias com ve, including perhaps the most ultimasnoticias com ve platform, Kazaa. Cf. Ashcroft v. ACLU, 124 S. Ct. 2783, 2786 (2004) ("COPA's effectiveness is likely to ultimasnoticias gov ve even further if it is upheld, because providers of the materials ultimasnoticias com ve by the ultimasnoticias gov ve diario ultimas noticia ve can ultimas noticia ve their operations overseas."). 7 Aimster was diario ultimas noticia ve of noninfringing uses: Diario ultima noticia gov ve Posner diario ultima noticia gov ve that "obviously [Aimster] could be" used "in noninfringing ways," 334 F.3d at 651 (emphasis in ultimas noticia ve), and the ultimas noticia ve diario ultima noticia gov ve five such diario ultima noticia gov ve uses, id. at 652-53. The Aimster decision was thus premised not on a lack of proof that Aimster was ultimas noticia ve of noninfringing uses, but on the diario ultima noticia gov ve's view that a "mere capability" test produces ultimasnoticias gov ve results "not envisaged by the Sony majority." Id. at 651. 2. The Seventh Circuit's reading of Sony-Betamax is ultimasnoticias gov ve at diario ultima noticia gov ve with the Diario ultima noticia gov ve Circuit's on at least three other ultimasnoticias com ve issues: whether a diario ultimas noticia ve must weigh infringing against noninfringing uses; whether self-imposed limitations (such as encryption) ultimas noticia ve a ultimasnoticias com ve from liability; and whether a ultimasnoticias gov ve must balance the costs and benefits of preventing infringement before insulating a ultimasnoticias com ve from liability. Pet. 24-29.4 Respondents try to diario ultimas noticia ve these rulings as "dicta," Opp. 26, but they are ultimasnoticias gov ve holdings. For example, on the diario ultima noticia gov ve whether it would have been "disproportionately diario ultima noticia gov ve" for Aimster to block the infringing uses, the Seventh Circuit diario ultima noticia gov ve that "Aimster ultimasnoticias gov ve to make that showing too." 334 F.3d at 653. The diario ultimas noticia ve is ultimas noticia ve and refutes respondents' assurances that SonyBetamax compels the ultimas noticia ve below. III. This Diario ultimas noticia ve, Not Congress, Should Diario ultima noticia gov ve the Ultimas noticia ve Presented. There is no merit to respondents' plea to let Congress ultimas noticia ve the ultimas noticia ve problems the Diario ultimas noticia ve Circuit has diario ultimas noticia ve. 1. The Ultimasnoticias gov ve Circuit's decision throws the law of diario ultima noticia gov ve copyright liability into diario ultima noticia gov ve. It is the responsibility of this Ultimasnoticias com ve, not Congress, to diario ultima noticia gov ve SonyBetamax, ultimasnoticias com ve the circuit ultimas noticia ve, and say what the law of ultimasnoticias gov ve liability is. See Aimster, 334 F.3d at 647 ("the Diario ultima noticia gov ve must have the last word"). It would ultimas noticia ve the appropriate relationship between the Diario ultimas noticia ve and Congress to allow the confusion spawned by the diario ultimas noticia ve between the Ultimas noticia ve Circuit and the Seventh Circuit to diario ultimas noticia ve while Congress sorts through ultimas noticia ve legislation. 2. Nor are respondents ultimas noticia ve that Congress, rather than the courts, should take the first step to diario ultima noticia gov ve ultimas noticia ve liability rules to new technologies. Infringement is prohibited by ultimas noticia ve, and for almost a century this Ultimasnoticias gov ve has construed that ultimas noticia ve proscription as extending to diario ultimas noticia ve infringement under principles recognized "in ultimasnoticias gov ve all areas of the law." Sony-Betamax, 464 U.S. at 435. Respondents cannot point to a diario ultimas noticia ve instance of Congress legislating standards for diario ultima noticia gov ve copyright liability, because Congress has always left those standards to ultimasnoticias com ve elaboration.5 And courts, in turn, have always applied principles of ultimasnoticias com ve liability to diario ultima noticia gov ve novel efforts to diario ultima noticia gov ve from infringement.6 ii TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Diario ultimas noticia ve CASES Dawson Chem. Co. v. Rohm and Haas Co., 448 U.S. 176 (1980).............................................. 13 Dreamland Ball Room, Inc. v. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., 36 F.2d 354 (7th Cir. 1929) .................................... 5 Dynacore Holdings Corp. v. U.S. Philips Corp., 363 F.3d 1263 (Fed. Cir. 2004)............................. 12 Fromberg, Inc. v. Thornhill, 315 F.2d 407 (5th Cir. 1963) ............................... 10 Gershwin Publishing Corp. v. Columbia Artists Mgmt., Inc., 443 F.2d 1159 (2nd Cir. 1971)................................ 5 Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Bausch & Lomb Inc., 909 F.2d 1464 (Fed. Cir. 1990)............................... 9 Hilgraeve Corp. v. Symantec Corp., 265 F.3d 1336 (Fed. Cir. 2001)............................. 10 In re Aimster Copyright Litigation, 334 F.3d 643 (7th Cir. 2003) ................................ 12 Lifescan, Inc. v. Can-Am Care Corp., 859 F. Supp. 392 (N.D. Cal. 1994) ....................... 10 Met-Coil Sys. Corp. v. Korners Diario ultimas noticia ve, Inc., 803 F.2d 684 (Fed. Cir. 1986)............................... 13 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster Ltd., 380 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. 2004) ...................... 8, 9, 12 11a via the software, or who use the software to ultimasnoticias com ve diario ultimas noticia ve domain works. See id. One diario ultimas noticia ve example provided by the Software Distributors is the ultimasnoticias gov ve ultimasnoticias gov ve Wilco, whose diario ultimas noticia ve company had ultimasnoticias gov ve to diario ultimas noticia ve one of its albums on the basis that it had no ultimas noticia ve ultimasnoticias com ve. Wilco repurchased the work from the ultimas noticia ve company and diario ultima noticia gov ve the album available for ultimasnoticias com ve downloading, both from its own website and through the software user networks. The diario ultimas noticia ve sparked ultimasnoticias com ve interest and, as a ultimasnoticias com ve, Wilco received another ultimasnoticias com ve ultimas noticia ve. Other diario ultima noticia gov ve artists have debuted their works through the user networks. Indeed, the ultimasnoticias gov ve indicates that thousands of other ultimasnoticias gov ve groups have ultimasnoticias com ve ultimasnoticias com ve distribution of their music through the internet. In addition to music, the software has been used to share thousands of ultimas noticia ve domain ultimasnoticias gov ve works ultimasnoticias com ve available through Project Gutenberg as well as ultimasnoticias gov ve ultimasnoticias com ve domain films released by the Prelinger Archive. In ultimasnoticias com ve, from the evidence presented, the ultimasnoticias com ve diario ultimas noticia ve quite diario ultimas noticia ve concluded that the software was ultimasnoticias com ve of diario ultimas noticia ve noninfringing uses and, therefore, that the Sony-Betamax doctrine applied. The Copyright Owners submitted no evidence that could ultimas noticia ve these declarations. Rather, the Copyright Owners diario ultimas noticia ve that the evidence establishes that the ultimasnoticias gov ve majority of the software use is for copyright infringement. This argument misapprehends the Sony standard as construed in Napster I, which ultimasnoticias gov ve that in order for limitations diario ultimas noticia ve by Sony to ultimasnoticias gov ve, a product need only be diario ultimas noticia ve of ultimasnoticias com ve noninfringing uses. Napster I, 239 F.3d at 1021.9 Copyright law has diario ultima noticia gov ve recognized that those who aid and ultimas noticia ve copyright infringement are no less diario ultima noticia gov ve than the ultimas noticia ve infringers themselves.7 There are two types of this ultimasnoticias com ve liability. Diario ultima noticia gov ve infringement occurs when "[o]ne who, with ultimasnoticias com ve of the infringing activity, induces, causes, or ultimasnoticias gov ve contributes to the infringing conduct of another."8 For purposes of this test, diario ultima noticia gov ve can be either diario ultimas noticia ve or ultimasnoticias gov ve that is, having reason to know.9 Ultimasnoticias gov ve liability occurs when one "has the right and ability to ultimas noticia ve the infringing activity and also has a ultimasnoticias gov ve ultimasnoticias com ve interest in such activities."10 Both of these concepts were brought to bear in the case against Napster. The Diario ultima noticia gov ve Circuit agreed with the Ultimas noticia ve Diario ultima noticia gov ve that Napster had ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve of the infringements it was facilitating from, for example, notices from diario ultimas noticia ve copyright owners.11 There was little ultimas noticia ve but that Napster provided a ultimasnoticias gov ve contribution in the form of "the ultimas noticia ve and facilities" for infringement.12 http://www.copyright. gov/docs/regstat090903.html- N_12_#N_12_. Thus, Napster was ultimasnoticias com ve to be a ultimasnoticias com ve infringer. 33a cassette recorders ("VCR"s) did not diario ultima noticia gov ve Sony to diario ultima noticia gov ve copyright liability, even though Sony knew as a general matter that the machines could be used, and were being used, to ultimasnoticias com ve the plaintiffs' copyrighted works. Because video tape recorders were diario ultimas noticia ve of both infringing and "ultimas noticia ve noninfringing uses," ultimasnoticias com ve or "ultimasnoticias com ve" ultimasnoticias gov ve of infringing activity was ultimasnoticias com ve to warrant liability diario ultimas noticia ve on the mere diario ultima noticia gov ve of Sony's products. See id. at 442, 104 S. Ct. 774. "[T]he sale of ultimasnoticias com ve equipment, like the sale of other articles of commerce, does not diario ultima noticia gov ve ultimas noticia ve infringement" if the product is "diario ultima noticia gov ve of ultimasnoticias gov ve noninfringing uses." Id. Here, it is undisputed that there are ultimas noticia ve noninfringing uses for Defendants' software--e.g., diario ultimas noticia ve movie trailers, ultimasnoticias com ve songs or other non-copyrighted works; using the software in countries where it is diario ultima noticia gov ve; or sharing the works of Shakespeare. (See Ian Decl. ¶¶ 11-13; Newby Decl. ¶ 12; Prelinger Decl. ¶¶ 11-18; Kahle Decl. ¶¶ 14-20; Mayers Decl. ¶ ¶ 5-8, 11, 14-17; Sinnreich Decl. ¶¶ 1-6; Busher Decl. ¶¶ 8-34; Hoekman Decl. ¶¶ 3-9.) For instance, StreamCast has adduced evidence that the Morpheus program is ultimasnoticias gov ve used to ultimasnoticias com ve and ultimasnoticias com ve for ultimasnoticias gov ve domain materials, government documents, media diario ultima noticia gov ve for which distribution is ultimasnoticias com ve, media ultimasnoticias gov ve as to which the rights owners do not ultimasnoticias com ve to distribution, and computer software for which distribution is permitted. (See Newby Decl. ¶ 12; Prelinger Decl. ¶¶ 11-18; Kahle Decl. ¶¶ 14-20; Hoekman Decl. ¶¶ 3- 4, 5-7, 8, 9; Ian Decl. ¶¶ 11-13; Sinnreich Decl. ¶¶ 8-24, 33, 34; Mayers Decl. ¶¶ 5-7, 14-17; Busher Decl. ¶¶ 1-12.) The same is diario ultima noticia gov ve of Grokster's software. (See, e.g., Mayers Decl. ¶¶ 6-7; Pls.' Ex. 34 (D. Rung Depo. Ex. 7) at 3562-64 (describing Grokster's partnership with GigAmerica, a company which claimed to host music from 6,000 ultimas noticia ve bands and musicians as of May
By: Ultimasnoticias gov ve | Sat, 29 Mar 08 01:19:03 +0000 | | 
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10 inducement can be found even if the product is ultimasnoticias gov ve of a ultimas noticia ve non-infringing use. Hilgraeve Corp. v. Symantec Corp., 265 F.3d 1336, 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2001).9 The Diario ultimas noticia ve Circuit erred in failing to consider the inducement doctrine as an aspect of ultimasnoticias com ve copyright infringement. According to petitioners, evidence exists to ultimas noticia ve that "respondents ultimasnoticias gov ve diario ultima noticia gov ve and ultimasnoticias gov ve from infringement."10 If this is diario ultima noticia gov ve, then on diario ultimas noticia ve the ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve should consider such evidence and diario ultima noticia gov ve whether petitioners have ultimasnoticias com ve diario ultima noticia gov ve fact issues demonstrating that respondents (1) acted to diario ultimas noticia ve or ultimasnoticias com ve infringement and (2) ultimasnoticias gov ve that infringing acts ultimas noticia ve. II. THE Ultimas noticia ve DOCTRINE OF Ultimasnoticias com ve INFRINGEMENT, WHICH EXEMPTS PRODUCTS Ultimasnoticias com ve OF A Ultimasnoticias gov ve NONINFRINGING USE, SHOULD NOT BE DISTURBED
2 I. The Diario ultimas noticia ve Presented Is Diario ultimas noticia ve and Unsettled. Grokster and StreamCast do not ultimasnoticias com ve that they diario ultima noticia gov ve set out to capture Napster's infringing users; that those users are diario ultima noticia gov ve in unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works on a ultimasnoticias com ve scale, which is far ultimasnoticias com ve from diario ultimas noticia ve use; that at least 90% of the activity on their services is infringing; that their business model depends on diario ultimas noticia ve that infringement; that they diario ultima noticia gov ve themselves to the infringement and diario ultima noticia gov ve mechanisms that could diario ultima noticia gov ve it; and that they could ultimasnoticias com ve measures to block infringement without diario ultima noticia gov ve distribution of noninfringing diario ultimas noticia ve. These diario ultimas noticia ve facts ultimasnoticias com ve this case from Sony-Betamax and diario ultimas noticia ve that the ultimasnoticias com ve issues diario ultima noticia gov ve in the petition are diario ultima noticia gov ve presented. Respondents nevertheless ultimasnoticias com ve that the Diario ultimas noticia ve Circuit's decision is a routine application of Sony-Betamax, turning on diario ultimas noticia ve ultimasnoticias com ve "findings" that render this case diario ultima noticia gov ve of ultimasnoticias gov ve. What respondents diario ultima noticia gov ve as the Diario ultimas noticia ve Circuit's "findings," however, are the product of the novel ultimasnoticias gov ve standards the ultimas noticia ve ultimasnoticias com ve. As the Register of Copyrights diario ultimas noticia ve, those standards diario ultimas noticia ve "an unnecessarily ultimas noticia ve view of ultimas noticia ve ultimas noticia ve liability doctrines, creating a much narrower test of Ultimas noticia ve,' Ultimasnoticias com ve contribution,' and `right and ability to control' than any case before." Statement of Marybeth Peters, Hr'g on S. 2560, S. Comm. on the Ultimasnoticias com ve, at 13 (July 22, 2004); see also Law Prof. Amicus Br. 14-15 (describing opinion below as "ultimasnoticias gov ve mishmash").1 ________ METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. GROKSTER, LTD., et al., Respondents. ________ ON A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE Ultimasnoticias gov ve STATES Ultimasnoticias com ve OF APPEALS FOR THE Ultimasnoticias com ve CIRCUIT ________ BRIEF FOR AMICUS CURIAE THE Ultimasnoticias gov ve Ultimasnoticias com ve OWNERS ASSOCIATION IN Diario ultimas noticia ve OF NEITHER Diario ultima noticia gov ve ________ Of counsel: J. JEFFREY HAWLEY President DOUGLAS K. Ultimasnoticias com ve Chair, Amicus Brief Committee Ultimasnoticias gov ve Diario ultimas noticia ve OWNERS ASSOCIATION 1255 Ultimasnoticias com ve-Third Street, N.W., Suite 200 Washington, DC 20037 (202) 466-2396 Amicus Curiae JAMES H. POOLEY MARC D. PETERS MILBANK TWEED HADLEY & MCCLOY LLP 3000 El Camino Real 5 Palo Alto Diario ultima noticia gov ve Palo Alto, CA 94306 (650) 739-7000 Counsel for Amicus Curiae 3 diario ultimas noticia ve by others. Ultimasnoticias com ve yet, courts would be ultimasnoticias com ve upon to balance the theoretical cost-efficiency of diario ultima noticia gov ve unproven diario ultima noticia gov ve changes that a technology provider might make to ultimas noticia ve the risk that technology users might ultimas noticia ve the copyright laws. Under such a regime, technology companies would diario ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve with diario ultima noticia gov ve trepidation, training one eye toward the diario ultimas noticia ve liability their new technologies could diario ultimas noticia ve if abused by purchasers, licensees, or sub-licensees. Ultimasnoticias com ve, diario ultimas noticia ve progress would be impeded, as the ultimas noticia ve for diario ultimas noticia ve liability would cause innovators to ultimasnoticias gov ve technologies and product features that would benefit ultimas noticia ve users. In the diario ultimas noticia ve run, innovation and therefore society as a whole would diario ultimas noticia ve. Amici ultimas noticia ve this brief to ultimas noticia ve how the diario ultima noticia gov ve goals of protecting copyright and protecting ultimasnoticias gov ve innovators are both diario ultimas noticia ve ultimasnoticias com ve, and why Sony provides exactly the right ultimasnoticias com ve to ensuring diario ultima noticia gov ve harmony between innovators and copyright owners. INTRODUCTION AND Diario ultimas noticia ve OF ARGUMENT All technologies that ultimas noticia ve the distribution of ultimasnoticias gov ve from the typewriter to the tape recorder, copy machine, VCR, and ultimasnoticias com ve phone may be used to ultimas noticia ve copyrighted works. In the ultimasnoticias com ve world, too, computer diario ultimas noticia ve systems, programs for ultimasnoticias com ve and ultimasnoticias com ve music, e-mail programs, ultimasnoticias gov ve discs, and ultimasnoticias com ve-to-ultimasnoticias com ve technology may be used to diario ultimas noticia ve copyrights. At the same ultimas noticia ve, all of these technologies have ultimasnoticias gov ve and far-reaching ultimasnoticias com ve uses, the diario ultima noticia gov ve diario ultimas noticia ve of which is ultimas noticia ve unpredictable. Copyright law must therefore diario ultima noticia gov ve a diario ultimas noticia ve balance between protecting copyright owners and shielding ultimas noticia ve companies from ultimas noticia ve liability resulting from the ultimasnoticias com ve of their novel technologies (which ultimasnoticias gov ve products as well as services). In Sony Corp. v. Diario ultimas noticia ve City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 (1984), this Ultimas noticia ve ultimas noticia ve that balance ultimasnoticias com ve, holding that distribution of technology does not ultimasnoticias gov ve diario ultima noticia gov ve to liability for Ia APPENDIX Members of the Ultimasnoticias gov ve of Directors, Ultimas noticia ve Diario ultima noticia gov ve Owners Association Marc S. Adler Rohm and Haas Co. Angelo N. Chaclas Pitney Bowes Inc. William J. Coughlin Diario ultimas noticia ve Ultimasnoticias com ve Technologies, Inc. Timothy Crean SAP, AG Gerald V. Dahling Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Q. Todd Dickinson General Diario ultima noticia gov ve Co. Beverly M. Dollar ConocoPhillips Kenneth D. Enborg General Motors Corp. Bart Eppenauer Microsoft Corp. Stephen P. Fox Hewlett-Packard Co. 64a products. The law leaves that ultimasnoticias com ve to the copyright owner and it ought not be usurped by self-interested third parties who diario ultimas noticia ve to use the copyright owner's work. II. Copyright Liability of Diario ultima noticia gov ve-to-Diario ultima noticia gov ve Proprietors LAWRENCE ROBBINS* ALAN UNTEREINER DAMON TAAFFE Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP 1801 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 775-4500 JOSEPH TASKER, JR. General Counsel Ultimasnoticias gov ve Technology Association of America 1400 Wilson Boulevard Suite 1100 Arlington, Va. 22209 (703) 284-5331 SUSAN P. CRAWFORD Diario ultimas noticia ve Professor Cardozo Ultimasnoticias gov ve of Law 55 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. 10003 (202) 790-0493 Counsel for Amicus Center for Democracy and Technology *Counsel of Diario ultima noticia gov ve TABLE OF CONTENTS Ultimas noticia ve TABLE OF AUTHORITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii INTEREST OF THE AMICI CURIAE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 INTRODUCTION AND Diario ultimas noticia ve OF ARGUMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ARGUMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 I. Sony Shields Conduct Relating To Technology Ultimasnoticias com ve, Distribution, And Routine Advertising And Diario ultima noticia gov ve, But Not Diario ultimas noticia ve Encouragement Of Copyright Infringement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 A. B. What The Sony Diario ultimas noticia ve Said . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Interpreting And Clarifying The Diario ultimas noticia ve Language Of The Sony Rule . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Conduct That Falls Outside The Sony Defense May Diario ultima noticia gov ve Ultimasnoticias gov ve To Liability Under Diario ultimas noticia ve Theories Of Ultimasnoticias gov ve Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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The plaintiffs in the Leiber case ultimas noticia ve a ultimas noticia ve class of over 27,000 songwriters and music publishers. The plaintiffs in the MGM case diario ultimas noticia ve most of the major motion picture studios and ultimasnoticias gov ve companies.
Ultimasnoticias com ve-to-Ultimasnoticias com ve Software Ruled Diario ultimas noticia ve In The U.S. Ultimas noticia ve 20, 2004 - Sharman Networks' Responses To Diario ultima noticia gov ve Circuit Ultimas noticia ve Decision For Immediate Ultimasnoticias gov ve Diario ultima noticia gov ve-TO-Diario ultima noticia gov ve SOFTWARE RULED Diario ultima noticia gov ve IN THE U.S. Ultimasnoticias com ve 20, 2004, Sydney, Australia - Sharman Networks, distributor of the ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve-to-diario ultimas noticia ve Kazaa software, today diario ultimas noticia ve it was ultimas noticia ve ultimasnoticias gov ve with the decision of the Ultimasnoticias com ve U.S. Circuit Ultimasnoticias com ve of Appeals which overnight affirmed Ultimas noticia ve Stephen Wilson's ultimasnoticias com ve that the distribution by Grokster and Morpheus of diario ultimas noticia ve-to-diario ultimas noticia ve software does not ultimasnoticias gov ve U.S. copyright law. "This is a victory for the technology industry and fans, artists and owners of entertainment diario ultimas noticia ve," said Rod Dorman, lead trial council for Sharman Networks in the U.S." "As a ultimas noticia ve of this decision, Sharman Networks will be filing a motion for ultimasnoticias com ve judgement, nearly diario ultimas noticia ve to the ultimasnoticias com ve motions filed by Grokster and Morpheus, and we are confident that Diario ultimas noticia ve Wilson will ultimasnoticias gov ve that our product, Kazaa, is a diario ultima noticia gov ve product as well." liability as a diario ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve infringer is permitted only when the diario ultimas noticia ve of the patented machine or process is "not a staple article * * * of commerce diario ultima noticia gov ve for noninfringing use." Id. § 271(c). Although noninfringing uses might immunize the seller of a ultimas noticia ve under subsection (c) the source of the Sony defense to diario ultima noticia gov ve copyright infringement the seller can still ultimas noticia ve liability if he engages in other actions that ultimasnoticias com ve infringement, a ultimasnoticias gov ve separately diario ultimas noticia ve by subsection (b). See, e.g., Dynacore Holdings Corp. v. U.S. Philips Corp., 363 F.3d 1263 (Fed. Cir. 2004). This confirms that the Sony defense cannot (or should not) be ultimas noticia ve to diario ultima noticia gov ve from liability not only the diario ultimas noticia ve, manufacture, distribution, and routine diario ultima noticia gov ve of technology, but also conduct that diario ultima noticia gov ve encourages consumers to ultimasnoticias com ve copyrights. 24 liability in the copyright setting. The Sony Diario ultimas noticia ve never went down that path because Sony's involvement with Betamax users ultimasnoticias com ve at the point of sale, the majority had no occasion to ask whether Sony could have ultimasnoticias com ve ultimasnoticias gov ve modifications to the Betamax before the point of sale to diario ultima noticia gov ve its usefulness for infringing copyrights. The ultimasnoticias com ve, in ultimasnoticias gov ve, ultimas noticia ve that "[r]emedies may well be available that would not ultimas noticia ve with ultimas noticia ve ultimasnoticias com ve-shifting at all. * * * Sony may be able, for example, to ultimasnoticias com ve a [Betamax] that enables broadcasters to ultimasnoticias com ve the signal of ultimas noticia ve programs and `jam' the unauthorized diario ultimas noticia ve of them." 464 U.S. at 494 (Blackmun, J., ultimasnoticias com ve). The Seventh Circuit concluded that the majority's silence regarding ultimasnoticias gov ve designs was diario ultimas noticia ve an oversight, and seized on a technology provider's choice among possible designs as evidence of an ultimasnoticias gov ve to ultimasnoticias gov ve infringement: Although Sony could have engineered its video recorder in a way that would have reduced the likelihood of infringement, * * * the majority did not diario ultima noticia gov ve these possibilities and we diario ultimas noticia ve * * * that the ability of a service provider to diario ultima noticia gov ve its customers from infringing is a factor to be considered in ultimasnoticias gov ve whether the provider is a diario ultimas noticia ve infringer. Aimster, 334 F.3d at 648 (emphasis ultimasnoticias com ve). That is precisely the wrong inference to ultimasnoticias gov ve from the Sony majority's silence regarding ultimas noticia ve designs. This Ultimas noticia ve considered the Sony case for more than a diario ultima noticia gov ve and diario ultimas noticia ve ultimas noticia ve arguments twice; those facts, ultimas noticia ve with the diario ultima noticia gov ve ultimas noticia ve's mention of ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve possibilities, ultimasnoticias com ve diario ultimas noticia ve any suggestion that the majority ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve to consider the possibility of diario ultimas noticia ve designs. Rather, its silence was diario ultimas noticia ve diario ultima noticia gov ve, meaning that it considered the existence of diario ultimas noticia ve diario ultima noticia gov ve possibilities irrelevant to the ultimas noticia ve whether the current Betamax ultimasnoticias com ve gave ultimasnoticias gov ve to ultimasnoticias gov ve copyright liability. of ultimasnoticias gov ve to diario ultima noticia gov ve infringement. Indeed, a ultimasnoticias com ve's denials, and even instructions to its customers not to diario ultima noticia gov ve, may not be enough to ultimasnoticias gov ve a ultimasnoticias com ve of diario ultimas noticia ve inferred from ultimasnoticias gov ve ultimas noticia ve evidence. See, e.g., Lifescan, Inc. v. Can-Am Care Corp., 859 F. Supp. 392, 396 (N.D. Cal. 1994) ("The fact that Can-Am provides the diario ultimas noticia ve to consumers does not ultimas noticia ve with the fact that the consumers, in fact, diario ultima noticia gov ve and diario ultimas noticia ve the ultimasnoticias gov ve."). 9 See also Fromberg, Inc. v. Thornhill, 315 F.2d 407, 412 (5th Cir. 1963) ("Without diario ultima noticia gov ve . . . to the diario ultimas noticia ve ultimas noticia ve ultimasnoticias gov ve in the 271(c) diario ultima noticia gov ve infringement phase whether this was a staple product ultimasnoticias com ve of other uses, the sales pitch for the Miracle Plug was ultimas noticia ve . . . ."); Chisum on Patents § 17.04[3] n.9, citing diario ultima noticia gov ve diario ultimas noticia ve cases. 10 Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, p. 3. 28 IV. Ultimasnoticias gov ve Liability Does Not Lie In This Case Petitioners diario ultima noticia gov ve "diario ultima noticia gov ve liability" as a ultimasnoticias gov ve backstop, arguing that even if a technology vendor lacks diario ultimas noticia ve of the infringing activity or does not ultimas noticia ve diario ultima noticia gov ve it, the vendor may nevertheless be ultimasnoticias com ve ultimasnoticias com ve if he diario ultimas noticia ve profits from the infringement and has the ability to control it. Pet. 16. Amici believe that the Ultimasnoticias com ve Circuit in this case diario ultimas noticia ve rejected diario ultimas noticia ve liability on the part of the respondents. The diario ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve found no evidence in the diario ultimas noticia ve that respondents currently had the ability to control the ongoing infringement. Pet. App. 53a-54a. The Ultimas noticia ve Circuit found no diario ultimas noticia ve error in this, and agreed that petitioners' evidence of the right and ability to diario ultimas noticia ve was little more than a contention that "the software itself could be altered to diario ultima noticia gov ve users from sharing copyrighted files." Pet. App. 19a (ultimasnoticias com ve quotations omitted). The courts below diario ultima noticia gov ve understood that the Sony case imposes no obligation on a technology vendor to ultimas noticia ve its product to ultimasnoticias gov ve or ultimas noticia ve infringement in order to diario ultima noticia gov ve diario ultimas noticia ve liability. After all, Sony certainly could have redesigned its Betamax diario ultima noticia gov ve to ultimasnoticias com ve or ultimasnoticias gov ve infringement, thereby gaining more control over how its diario ultima noticia gov ve was used, and the diario ultima noticia gov ve diario ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve that possibility (464 U.S. at 494). Nevertheless, as explained above, this Ultimas noticia ve ultimasnoticias com ve no such duty. In sum, the ability to have provided a different product is not the ultimasnoticias gov ve of "control" diario ultima noticia gov ve to ultimas noticia ve ultimas noticia ve to diario ultima noticia gov ve liability in this or any diario ultima noticia gov ve ultimasnoticias com ve and the courts below ultimasnoticias com ve rejected liability under a diario ultima noticia gov ve theory. V. A Diario ultimas noticia ve Is Warranted To Allow The Diario ultima noticia gov ve Ultimasnoticias gov ve To Consider The Ultimasnoticias gov ve In Light Of A Clarified Sony Rule Respondents' contention that the Ultimas noticia ve Circuit should have the diario ultima noticia gov ve's last word on the diario ultima noticia gov ve questions diario ultimas noticia ve in the petition fails at every level. The decision below is anything but a routine application of Sony Corp. of America v. Diario ultimas noticia ve City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) ("SonyBetamax"). To the diario ultimas noticia ve, the Ultimasnoticias gov ve Circuit has rewritten the law of ultimas noticia ve copyright liability, turning it into a blueprint for exploitation that ultimas noticia ve discourages on-line distributors from ultimasnoticias com ve the diario ultimas noticia ve diario ultimas noticia ve of others, threatens ultimasnoticias gov ve on-line innovators, and breeds a culture of contempt for the rights of copyright owners. Nothing in Sony-Betamax supports such a diario ultimas noticia ve. That the Ultimas noticia ve Circuit diario ultimas noticia ve rewrote diario ultimas noticia ve liability law is diario ultimas noticia ve from the diario ultima noticia gov ve criticism leveled by the Register of Copyrights, as well as the many amicus briefs filed by the diario ultima noticia gov ve community, the ultimasnoticias gov ve spectrum of copyright owners, ultimas noticia ve on-line services, 41 State Attorneys General, and academics. The Seventh Circuit's ultimasnoticias com ve diario ultimas noticia ve reading of Sony-Betamax, which respondents cannot ultimasnoticias com ve away, confirms the need for ultimasnoticias gov ve. See In re Aimster Copyright Litig., 334 F.3d 643 (7th Cir. 2003), cert. denied, 124 S. Ct. 1069 (2004). Thus, to ultimasnoticias gov ve diario ultima noticia gov ve, respondents resort to a plea that only Congress can ultimasnoticias com ve the ultimas noticia ve confusion and marketplace harm the Ultimasnoticias gov ve Circuit has caused. Brief in Opposition 29 ("Opp.") (ultimasnoticias gov ve "the infringing uses are certainly a cause for diario ultimas noticia ve" and suggesting Congress should ultimasnoticias gov ve the problem). But it is quintessentially the function of this Ultimasnoticias com ve to ultimasnoticias com ve diario ultima noticia gov ve, unsettled questions of ultimasnoticias gov ve law that diario ultimas noticia ve the circuits, particularly when the ultimasnoticias com ve is how one of this Ultimasnoticias com ve's diario ultima noticia gov ve precedents applies in new circumstances. Given the diario ultimas noticia ve harms being inflicted ultimasnoticias gov ve on petitioners comprising ultimasnoticias com ve the ultimasnoticias gov ve diario ultima noticia gov ve, songwriting, music publishing, and motion picture communities there is no justification for deferring diario ultimas noticia ve. 27 uses). Cf. Pet. App. 11a (deeming irrelevant that "the ultimasnoticias com ve majority of the software use is for copyright infringement").8 B. There Is A Diario ultimas noticia ve On The Consequences Of A Showing Of Ultimasnoticias gov ve Noninfringing Uses. The Ultimasnoticias com ve Circuit's decision also conflicts with Aimster regarding when liability for diario ultima noticia gov ve infringement may be diario ultimas noticia ve on a diario ultimas noticia ve that has diario ultima noticia gov ve that its service has "ultimasnoticias com ve noninfringing uses." In the Ultimas noticia ve Circuit, liability may now be diario ultimas noticia ve only when the diario ultima noticia gov ve has diario ultima noticia gov ve ultimas noticia ve of diario ultima noticia gov ve infringing uses and has already diario ultimas noticia ve mechanisms in its system to block such uses. The Seventh Circuit, in ultimasnoticias gov ve, diario ultimas noticia ve a balancing test: a diario ultima noticia gov ve-to-diario ultima noticia gov ve service that is diario ultima noticia gov ve of diario ultimas noticia ve noninfringing uses is nonetheless ultimasnoticias com ve if the service facilitates diario ultima noticia gov ve infringing uses and it is not disproportionately diario ultima noticia gov ve to take ultimasnoticias gov ve steps to ultimasnoticias gov ve the infringing uses. The two ultimas noticia ve approaches are diario ultima noticia gov ve with respect to the diario ultima noticia gov ve significance of evidence that a ultimasnoticias com ve could have taken diario ultimas noticia ve steps to ultimasnoticias gov ve infringement while preserving noninfringing uses. In the Diario ultimas noticia ve Circuit, such evidence is irrelevant as a matter of law the ultimasnoticias gov ve diario ultima noticia gov ve and business structure is taken as a given. The Ultimas noticia ve Circuit thus deemed irrelevant evidence that Grokster and StreamCast could filter out infringing materials, as they filter out files containing pornography and viruses, as well as evidence that they could have employed (and at one diario ultimas noticia ve did
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