Owners Take All
July 01, 2005
The sharing of media content and infrastructure was a theme in two Supreme Court decisions handed down this week. In the Grokster case, the Court ruled against peer-to-peer sharers, saying software makers can be held liable for copyright infringement by their users. Sharing was also nixed in the Brand X decision, in which the Court effectively ruled that cable companies don't have to share their lines with independent Internet providers. Brooke parses the decisions with University of Pittsburgh law professor Michael Madison.
