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Lynn Bayard and Elizabeth Eaton Publish Article on Music Copyright Infringement in IP Law360
January 9, 2009 Full PDF
Litigation partner Lynn Bayard and associate Elizabeth Eaton published the article "'Making Available' Cases Still Making Trouble" in the January 7 edition of IP Law360. The article discusses the piracy that has plagued the music industry for the past decade as a result of Internet peer-to-peer file-sharing sites and explores how courts have grappled with the question of whether users' "making available" of copyrighted files on those sites for reproduction by other users constitutes "distribution" under the Copyright Act.