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"Kompare, Derek" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:22:37 -0500
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The ruling was announced about half an hour ago, and details are making it out into the press. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a press conference scheduled for noon EDT with the legal defense team (http://www.eff.org/news/).

In a nutshell, this means that peer-to-peer software companies like Grokster (and many others) CAN be held liable for the copyright-infringing uses of their technology. This particular case gets sent back down to the appeals court. What this means for the 1984 Universal v. Sony decision (i.e., the "Betamax" decision), which all of us US-based media educators have benefited from for the last two decades, is not crystal clear. 

We should all watch how this develops very carefully, and be prepared to further defend Fair Use.

-- DK

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Derek Kompare
Assistant Professor
Division of Cinema-Television
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
PO Box 750113
Dallas, TX 75275

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