Volume I

Issue : 4: August 21, 2003

• Entertainment Industry Appeals Ruling That Favoured Grokster
• Online Sex Offender Register Law Megans Law Survives Another Challenge
• Internet Matchmaking Service Immune in Identity Theft Case
• Tennessees Court of Appeals Holds That Prodigys Online Information Services Not Subject to State Sales Tax
• Merrill Lynch Prohibits Third Party Email Use
• Court Extends Movies Copyright Protection to Trailers
• Court Finds Company Liable For Employees Unauthorized Distribution of E-newsletter

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Entertainment Industry Appeals Ruling That Favoured Grokster

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have appealed an April 2003 U.S. Federal Court ruling by Judge Stephen Wilson that held for the first time that some file-swapping software was legal. The ruling by Judge Wilson was a serious setback for the RIAA's strategy of suing peer-to-peer network operators and software developers in order to curb the rapid growth of entertainment related file trading.

RIAA's president, Cary Sherman has called Judge Wilson's decision "wrong" and further stated that companies such as Grokster "are businesses that were built for the exclusive reason of illegally exchanging copyrighted works, and they make money hand over fist from it. The Court of Appeals should hold them accountable.

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