In an opinion piece, Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig writes:
... These cases together signaled a very strong and sensible policy: The complex balance of interests within any copyright statute are best struck by Congress. ¶ But 20 months ago, the Supreme Court reversed this wise policy of deference. Drawing upon common law-like power, the court expanded the Copyright Act in the Grokster case to cover a form of liability it had never before recognized in the context of copyright — the wrong of providing technology that induces copyright infringement. It announced this new form of liability even though at precisely the same time Congress was holding hearings about whether to amend the Copyright Act to create the same liability. ...
Link: New York Times.
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