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Remedying 'Grokster'

Special to Law.com

July 25, 2005

Don't you hate it when you ask someone a question, but, rather than answering it, they choose to answer a different one? Then you understand the frustration tech lawyers feel in the wake of the Supreme Court's opinion in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. v. Grokster Ltd., says the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann. Asked to clarify the reach of copyright law's existing secondary liability doctrines, the Court instead announced a new doctrine for copyright: inducement.

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