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Major International Rights Owners Urge U.S. Supreme Court To Reverse Grokster Decision
Eight major international trade associations, representing hundreds of thousands of copyright and other rights owners in more than 100 countries outside the United States of America filed a 'friend of the court' brief yesterday, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the court of appeals' decision in the Grokster file-sharing case. These organisations argue that the lower court's decision not only affects U.S. rights owners, but also denies international rights owners effective protection in the U.S. against copyright infringement on a 'massive and unprecedented scale'. This puts the United States in breach of its obligations under international treaties which require enforcement measures that are effective in deterring and preventing piracy. Unless reversed, the court of appeals decision sets bad precedent not only in the U.S. but elsewhere, and risks making the U.S. a piracy haven from which infringing copies of protected material spill over the border via the internet to hurt rights owners in other countries. The international trade associations filing this 'friend of the court' brief represent record companies, producers and distributors; music and literary publishers; composers and authors of a variety of protected works; rights societies; film producers; performers; and video publishers. The Supreme Court will hear the appeal by the U.S. plaintiff record companies, film studios and music publishers who brought the case later this spring. International Rights Owners' Associations filing amicus brief The associations filing friends of the court brief include music authors, publishers and rights societies BIEM, CISAC, and ICMP; international actors' federation FIA; international film producers' association FIAPF; the international publishers' association IPA; the international recording industry association IFPI; and the international video federation IVF.
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