Grokster: Finally
Apparently unanimously held against Grokster, Streamcast. AP has the story. Justice Souter’s majority opinion is here.
SCOTUS
Waiting for Grokster
How many hard-drives of reporters and bloggers this morning contain variants of the following, pre-written, anticipating: “Today, the United States Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in the Grokster case, holding that… This opinion marks a watershed in the epic battle over peer-to-peer file-sharing. Its effects on innovation will be far-reaching. Experts said they … Read more
Ben Edelman's take on SCOTUS argument re: filtering
Berkman Student Fellow Ben Edelman offers this (and more) about what he heard during yesterday’s SCOTUS proceedings regarding the challenge to CIPA and related filtering laws: “The government’s most successful argument yesterday seemed to be that, they allege, libraries and librarians have long made decisions as to which books to obtain and which to exclude … Read more