Legal Opinion
In Re Aimster Copyright Litigation
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 4, 2002No. 01 C 8933PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ASPEN, Chief Judge.
On November 17, 2001, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated eleven cases in this court for pretrial proceedings under Multi-District Litigation number 1425 (master file Ol-c-8983). Presently before us is a joint motion for preliminary injunction filed by several of those Plaintiffs (from cases 01-c-8940, 01-e-8941, and 01-e-8942) against the owner and operator of an Internet file sharing service called Aimster. 1 At issue is a service whose very raison d’etre appears to be the facilitation of and contribution to copyright…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Mazurek v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- Reno v. American Civil Liberties UnionSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- Precision Instrument Manufacturing Co. v. Automotive Maintenance MacHinery Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984
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3Cited by27 opinions
- In Re: Aimster Copyright LitigationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2003
- BMG Rights Management (US) LLC v. Cox Communications, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2018
- Perfect 10, Inc. v. CCBill LLCCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2007
- Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLCDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2011
- Corbis Corp. v. Amazon. Com, Inc.District Court, W.D. Washington · 2004
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