Thursday, September 30, 2004
The New York Times is reporting today about the Induce Act.
The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 adds to Section 501 of title 17 of the United States Code.
Where someone intentionally induces infringement of copyright for their comercial viability (I read as; "can make money by encouraging someone to use their product in order to break a copyright) shall be called an infringer.
This is brilliant.
One of the reasons that MGM v. Grokster was lost was that Grokster did not have any way of stopping file sharers from sharing files illegally (where with Napster, the centralized directory Did allow Napster the ability to shut down the practice).
The only way that suit could have been won would be if the ISP's could be enjoined in the suit. Grokster with the help of the ISP's could have shut down the port that allows file sharing, which could have forced customers to upgrade to a version of the software that does not allow file sharing that is illegal to occur.
The rest of the bill seems to allow for that...
The New York Times > Technology > Panel Considers Copyright Bill
The Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 adds to Section 501 of title 17 of the United States Code.
Where someone intentionally induces infringement of copyright for their comercial viability (I read as; "can make money by encouraging someone to use their product in order to break a copyright) shall be called an infringer.
This is brilliant.
One of the reasons that MGM v. Grokster was lost was that Grokster did not have any way of stopping file sharers from sharing files illegally (where with Napster, the centralized directory Did allow Napster the ability to shut down the practice).
The only way that suit could have been won would be if the ISP's could be enjoined in the suit. Grokster with the help of the ISP's could have shut down the port that allows file sharing, which could have forced customers to upgrade to a version of the software that does not allow file sharing that is illegal to occur.
The rest of the bill seems to allow for that...
The New York Times > Technology > Panel Considers Copyright Bill
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