Legislating IP (an intellectual property law blog)
Our mission is to to consolidate available information concerning copyright, trademark and patent legislation in the Courts, in Congress and throughout the United States.
Our mission is to to consolidate available information concerning copyright, trademark and patent legislation in the Courts, in Congress and throughout the United States.
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This case being wrongly compared to the Betamax case. Grokster is operating a media network that profits from the heavy traffic being generated by the exchange of copyrighted material. They are not manufacturing a consumer device. Once Sony sold a Betamax, they gained nothing financially if the device was later used for infringing purposes. Grokster and others, on the other hand, engage in various schemes to monetize the user traffic that exists ONLY because their network is enabling infringement. The more people infringe, the more Grokster makes through things like ad sales. That relationship was not true in the case of Sony.
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