Grokster, Morpheus File Briefs in Song-Swap Appeal
By Sue Zeidler
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two file-sharing services on Wednesday filed responses to a closely-watched appeal by film and music studios of a court ruling that found the services were not liable for massive copyright infringement.
“The appeal is just one of several assaults that we face from the Recording Industry Association of America” (RIAA), said Michael Weiss, chief executive of Streamcast Networks Inc, the developer of the popular Morpheus peer-to-peer software, which filed its brief in response to the appeal.
Both Morpheus and Grokster, another peer-to-peer service, responded on Wednesday to the appeal filed in August with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco by the Motion Picture Association of America, the RIAA, and the National Music Publishers’ Association.
Back then, the copyrights holders said U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles in April had dramatically departed from well-established copyright law when he ruled the file-sharing services should not be closed because they cannot control what songs are traded over their systems.
“The plaintiff’s seem to think that Judge Wilson’s decision was a typo,” said Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster.
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