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MGM v. Grokster: 9th Circuit Victory

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on August 19, 2004 at 5:11 PM

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the District Court decision in MGM v. Grokster, ruling that distributors of peer-to-peer file-sharing programs that use certain decentralized network designs may not be held contributorily or vicariously liable for copyright infringements by users. CIS is co-counsel for Grokster with Michael Page and Mark Lemley at the San Francisco firm of Keker & Van Nest.

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