United States Ninth Circuit

Contributory copyright liability claim, arising after plaintiff's short stories were posted on a peer-to-peer file sharing network to which defendant provides access, is remanded. Summary judgment was improperly granted to defendant regarding its threshold eligibility for the safe harbor limitations of liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/06/2003
• Decided 02/10/2004
• Published 02/10/2004

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before PREGERSON, THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and OBERDORFER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Glen L. Kulik,John H. Carmichael (brief), and Brigit K. Connelly, of Kulik, Gottesman, and Mouton, LLP, Sherman Oaks, CA, and Charles E. Petit (argued), Law Office of Charles E. Petit, Urbana, IL, for the plaintiff-appellant., Donald B. Verilli, Jr. (argued), Thomas J. Perilli, Kali N. Bracey, and Younjae Lee, Jenner & Block, LLC, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae BMG Music, EMI Recorded Music, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group., Sonya D. Winner, Evan Cox, Daniel Hirsch, Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Business Software Alliance., Daniel Schultz, James J. Halpert, and Arthur F. Fergenson, Piper Rudnick, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for amicus curiae Internet Commerce Coalition and Stewart A. Baker and Alice E. Loughran, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae U.S. Internet Service Provider Association., Laura A. Kaster,Frank L. Politano, and Michele A. Farber, AT & T Corp., Bedminster, NJ, for amicus curiae AT & T Corporation., Bruce G. Joseph and Scott E. Bain, Wiley, Rein, & Fielding, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Association of American Universities, American Council on Education, and National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel Scott Schecter (argued) and Belinda S. Lee, Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.