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Supreme Court Will Weigh Music Piracy Liability for Internet Service Providers in $1B Cox Case
The Supreme Court will weigh whether ISPs are liable for music piracy by reviewing a $1 billion record label lawsuit against Cox Communications.
The U.S Supreme Court has agreed to review a billion-dollar lawsuit brought by the major record labels against Cox Communications and decide whether internet service providers can be held liable when their users download music illegally. In granting the petition, the Supreme Court is agreeing to decide on a broad scale whether the country’s various internet service providers can be held liable for piracy under a legal theory known as contributory copyright infringement. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said in a statement of its own on Monday that under the DMCA, ISPs like Cox must face monetary liability if they do not “impose real consequences on users who repeatedly violate creators’ rights.”
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