The end of last year was relatively quiet for technology cases in New York’s courts. Elsewhere, however, courts were at work on some fundamental issues, including file sharing, password stealing and security circumvention. Following are a few interesting intellectual property cases from around the country that closed out 2005.
In MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.,[FOOTNOTE 1] the U.S. Supreme Court held in June that a file-sharing network had engaged in contributory copyright infringement because it actively encouraged its users to exchange files containing copyrighted material. Fundamental to this holding (and unchallenged by either party) is the notion that people who post or download such files are primary infringers.
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