United States Ninth Circuit

Modification of preliminary injunction, requiring defendant to police its music file-sharing system for infringing works, was not vague and adhered to vicarious and copyright infringement law; order to shut down defendant's system was a proper exercise of district court's power to enforce compliance with modified preliminary injunction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/10/2001
• Decided 03/25/2002
• Published 03/25/2002

Judges

• BEEZER, Circuit Judge., Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, BEEZER and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dale M. Cendali, Diana M. Torres, Elyssa M. Getreu, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for amici Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., American Film Marketing Association, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Broadcast Music, Inc., American Society of Media Photographers, Association of American Publishers, Business Software Alliance, Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, Jazz Journalists Association, Professional Photographers of America, and Software & Information Industry Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Russell J. Frackman, argued, George M. Borkowski, Peter B. Gelblum, Jeffrey D. Goldman, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for A & M Records, Inc. et al., plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees., Carey R. Ramos, argued, Aidan Synnott, Michael C. Keats, Lewis E. Farberman, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY, Jeffrey G. Knowles, Keith Evans-Orville, Julia D. Greer, Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP, San Francisco, California, for Jerry Leiber et al., plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees., Lawrence S. Robbins, argued, Roy T. Englert, Jr., Alan Untereiner, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP, Washington, DC, Laurence F. Pulgram, David Hayes, Fenwick & West LLP, San Francisco, CA, Steven Holtzman, Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, Armonk, NY, Steven M. Cohen, Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP, New York, NY, Joseph W. Cotchett, Jr., Cotchett Pitre & Simon, Burlingame, CA, for Napster, Inc., defendant-appellee-cross-appellant.