{"id":3258,"date":"2003-06-05T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2003-06-05T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/06\/05\/beating-a-dead-horse-part-21\/"},"modified":"2003-06-05T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2003-06-05T18:59:14","slug":"beating-a-dead-horse-part-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/06\/05\/beating-a-dead-horse-part-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating a Dead Horse, Part 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a227'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>So, EMI is <A href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1027_3-1013307.html\">suing <\/A>Bertelsmann for funding Napster. Hurray. I was looking over the contributory and vicarious infringement <A href=\"http:\/\/www.cacd.uscourts.gov\/cacd\/RecentPubOp.nsf\/0\/deccd30a5895b0e788256d3a006548dd\/$FILE\/203cv02785_00001.pdf\">suit<\/A> against Hummer Winblad.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure if the Bertelsmann suit is only one type of infringement &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure why it would be.&nbsp; It seems like its going to be vicarious infringement since it has to do primarily with deriving a financial benefit. But, if you need the right and ability to control part to cement that infringement claim, you might as well go after a material contribution claim.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, EMI is suing Bertelsmann for funding Napster. Hurray. I was looking over the contributory and vicarious infringement suit against Hummer Winblad.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure if the Bertelsmann suit is only one type of infringement &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure why it would be.&nbsp; It seems like its going to be vicarious infringement since it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}