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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
Judge:
MP3 site, ISP breached copyright
ZDNet.com.au - Australia
It took almost two years but major record labels in Australia have
finally won a legal battle against a Queensland man and his Internet Service
Provider for alleged music piracy.
Stephen Cooper, operator of a Web site called MP3s4free.net, was found guilty of
copyright infringement by Federal Court Justice Brian Tamberlin.
Although Cooper didn't host pirated recordings per se, the court found he
breached the law by creating hyperlinks to sites that had infringing sound
recordings.
This is the first such judgement against hyperlinking in Australia.
Tamberlin found against all other respondents in the case, namely ISP Comcen,
its employee Chris Takoushis, Comcen's parent company E-Talk Communications, and
its director Liam Bal.
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