On the heels of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court inMGM Studios v. Grokster, 125 S. Ct. 2764 (2005), where the Court found that file-sharing services could
Australian Court Finds For Music Company
Justice Murray Rutledge Wilcox of the Federal Court held that certain defendants associated with Sharman Networks were liable for "authorization" of copyright infringement as a result of having distributed the Kazaa file-sharing software. <br>Notwithstanding substantial differences between the legal systems and copyright jurisprudence in Australia and the United States, <i>Grokster</i> and <i>Sharman</i> demonstrate remarkable similarities in analysis.
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