There are fewer copyright lawsuits over online file-sharing in the United States, according to a new study comparing recent quarters. Lex Machina reports in its “2016 Second Quarter IP Litigation Trends” blog post that there were 249 file-sharing lawsuits filed in Q2 of 2016, compared to 517 cases in a previous quarter.
“This suggests that file sharing litigation, which had represented the majority of copyright litigation from Q4 2014 through Q4 2015, may have been a short-lived trend,” the report said.
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