Background Discussion of Copyright Law and Potential Liability for Students Engaged in P2P File Sharing on University Networks

Topics:
Music
Tags:
Copyright Law,
Internet,
Network,
P2P,
P2P File Sharing,
Peer To Peer (P2P)
Source:
American Council on Education

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Overview: The record industry recently filed lawsuits against four individual university network users, claiming hundreds of millions of dollars in damages based on their peer-to-peer ("P2P") file-sharing activities and consequent violations of federal copyright laws. P2P technology can be used in lawful and constructive ways as, for example, when professors place their lectures on university P2P networks, when researchers share the results of their studies and analyses with each other, or even when a band decides that it will authorize the sharing of its music.

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Format: PDF | Size: 167KB | Date: Aug 2003 | Pages: 13

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