Wed 30 Apr 2008
Court rejects RIAA’s ‘making available’ piracy argument
Posted by admin under UncategorizedIn Atlantic v. Howell, Judge Neil V. Wake denied the labels’ motion for summary judgment in a 17-page decision (PDF), allowing the suit to proceed to trial. The argument–that merely the act of making music files available for download constituted copyright infringement–has been the basis for the Recording Industry Association of America’s legal b