CDT Urges Balanced Copyright Approach Following Grokster Case - In written testimony submitted for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Protecting Copyright and Innovation in a post-Grokster World," CDT urged that courts, industry leaders and lawmakers take a page from the recent Supreme Court decision by supporting an approach that protects copyrighted works while still safeguarding the ability of innovators to create new products. In the case of MGM v. Grokster the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that peer-to-peer file-sharing companies could be sued if they encouraged their customers to infringe copyrighted works, but could not be held liable simply for designing technology. CDT suggested that, properly interpreted, the Grokster decision gives law enforcers and copyright owners all the tools they need to go after bad actors, but should help to forestall legal challenges against legitimate innovators. September 28, 2005
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