[50985] in North American Network Operators' Group
Major Labels v. Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ferriby)
Fri Aug 16 22:06:32 2002
From: "John Ferriby" <john@ferriby.com>
To: "NANOG" <NANOG@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:03:37 -0400
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A number of major music labels have joined forces and are seeking relief
from backbone providers, see:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=2&cid=582&u=/nm/200
20816/wr_nm/media_copyright_dc_4
It sounds like the labels are alleging that the providers are, in some
way, contributing infringers.
If there are any legal eagles here, can a Common Carrier be a contributing
infringer?
Could a trucking firm be labeled a contributing infringer if it carries
goods that violate
patent/copyright law? Would Verizon/SBC/Qwest et al be construed this
way if the service
delivered copyrighted material over the voice network unencoded?
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John Ferriby - PGP Key: www.ferriby.com/pgpkey
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