{"id":8,"date":"2005-03-30T00:13:39","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T04:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/driscolldev\/2005\/03\/30\/grokster-and-the-sc-hairs-raised-"},"modified":"2005-03-30T00:13:39","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T04:13:39","slug":"grokster-and-the-sc-hairs-raised-and-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/2005\/03\/30\/grokster-and-the-sc-hairs-raised-and-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Grokster and the SC: hairs raised and split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a12'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tka\/2005\/03\/29#a53\">Timothy Armstrong<\/a>, a teaching assistant for <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/lstu-e-120\/\">the class that provides impetus for this blog<\/a>, writes from the exciting Supreme Court argument in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.duke.edu\/publiclaw\/supremecourtonline\/certgrants\/2004\/mgmvgro.html\">MGM v. Grokster<\/a><\/i>.  Tim&#8217;s comments are encouraging and it seems Grokster is off to a strong start considering my waning optimism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the Justices have a hearteningly clear grasp of what the software does and doesn&#x2019;t do.  MGM also argued that the Ninth Circuit&#x2019;s decision was itself chilling technological innovation, although they defined &#x201C;innovation&#x201D; as innovation authorized by copyright holders.  MGM closed with its pity-the-starving-artists line, complaining about the lost revenues from hypothesized sales it says would have occurred absent file-sharing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the complete account over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tka\/2005\/03\/29#a53\">Timothy K. Armstrong&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Timothy Armstrong, a teaching assistant for the class that provides impetus for this blog, writes from the exciting Supreme Court argument in MGM v. Grokster. Tim&#8217;s comments are encouraging and it seems Grokster is off to a strong start considering my waning optimism. &#8220;&#8230;the Justices have a hearteningly clear grasp of what the software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}