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From Findlaw's Writ: HOW MGM V. GROKSTER BENEFITS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES

U.C. Davis law professors Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder explain some of the positive implications of the Supreme Court's MGM v. Grokster decision for technologies -- and potential future technologies -- whose status would otherwise have been uncertain. Chander and Sunder note that at the same time that the Court gave the go-ahead to the suit against Grokster itself, it also made future suits against inventions such as the iPod harder to bring. It did so by clearly rejecting media industries' desired standard for contributory copyright infringement, as Chander and Sunder explain.