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Another Fed Judge Says KaZaA's 'Shared Folder' isn't Distribution

By soulxtc

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New decision deals another major blow to RIAA's "making available" theory that simply putting music in KaZaA's "shared folder" constitutes copyright infringement. In Atlantic v. Howell the RIAA lost another major court battle yesterday when federal judge Neil V. Wake in Phoenix ruled that simply placing music in KaZaA's "shared folder" does not by itself constitute copyright infringement. "Merely making an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted work available to the public does not violate a copyright holder's exclusive right of distribution," wrote judge Neil Wake in a ruling denying the record industry's motion for summary judgment against Arizona resident Jeffrey Howell.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).

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