On May 24, Cox Communications filed its opening brief at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, asking that the panel either vacate the jury verdict holding the ISP liable for secondary copyright infringement or to at least order a new trial. Sony Music, joined by 57 other labels, sued Cox for vicarious and contributory infringement of 10,017 sound recordings and ...
When it was announced last week that a jury awarded the major record labels a one billion-dollar-damage award in its copyright infringement case against COX Communications, certain anti-copyright voices were predictably shrill in their astonishment at such a stratospheric number. Specifically, the plaintiffs represented by the RIAA were awarded $99,830.29 per infringement of just over 10,000 songs, which is actually less ...
Amicus briefs were filed recently in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of BMG Rights Management v Cox Communications. In November of 2014, BMG sued Cox (an ISP) for contributory copyright infringement, and a US District Court found for the plaintiff in December of 2015, awarding $25 million in damages. The suit was based on evidence that ...
