{"id":322,"date":"2004-12-10T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T16:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/12\/10\/scotus-grants-cert-in-mgm-v-grokster\/"},"modified":"2004-12-10T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T16:04:31","slug":"scotus-grants-cert-in-mgm-v-grokster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/12\/10\/scotus-grants-cert-in-mgm-v-grokster\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Grants Cert in MGM v. Grokster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a502'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Let&#8217;s hope that Justices still believe in the <EM>Sony-Betamax<\/EM> decision &#8212; <A href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Supreme+Court+to+decide+Grokster+case\/2100-1027_3-5487491.html\">they will be reviewing the 9th Circuit decision in the <EM>Grokster<\/EM> case<\/A>.&nbsp; With Rehnquist sick, a 4-4 decision would be sufficient to allow the lower court decision to stand.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve showed their willingness to uphold the idea of fair use in&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/09\/business\/09trademark.html\">a trademark decision<\/A> that came out this week.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hope that Justices still believe in the Sony-Betamax decision &#8212; they will be reviewing the 9th Circuit decision in the Grokster case.&nbsp; With Rehnquist sick, a 4-4 decision would be sufficient to allow the lower court decision to stand.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve showed their willingness to uphold the idea of fair use in&nbsp;a trademark decision that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}