What We Did Learn (Sort of) from the MP3Tunes Decision In our last post, we looked at what the MP3Tunes decision didn’t tell us–that it didn’t put the music industry’s best argument to the test. We looked at the contours of this “nuclear option,” including the...
What the MP3Tunes Decision Tells Us About Music-Locker Services (I know I said that our next posts in our Online Music Service Series would be about Pandora and Turntable.fm, but the recent decision in the MP3Tunes case has inspired me to look at the Amazon, Google...
Why Grooveshark Might Not Swim into the DMCA Safe Harbor In our last blog post, we examined two of the four main requirements for Grooveshark’s DMCA safe-harbor defense. Those requirements were (1) having and implementing a repeat-infringer policy, and (2) compliance...
Why Grooveshark Might Not Swim into the DMCA Safe Harbor In our last blog post, we examined two of the four main requirements for Grooveshark’s DMCA safe-harbor defense. Those requirements were (1) having and implementing a repeat-infringer policy, and (2) compliance...
Is Grooveshark Just the YouTube of Music? Although Grooveshark has been sued now three times, it has not yet had to explain why it thinks its activities are legal. After all, as we explained in our last two posts, its activities are infringing–but surely...
Is Grooveshark Just the YouTube of Music? Although Grooveshark has been sued now three times, it has not yet had to explain why it thinks its activities are legal. After all, as we explained in our last two posts, its activities are infringing–but surely...
