Legal Opinion
Sony BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 16, 2011No. 10-1883, 10-1947, 10-2052PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs, the recording companies Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Brothers Records Inc., Arista Records LLC, Atlantic Recording Corporation, and UMG Recordings, Inc. (together, “Sony”), brought this action for statutory damages and injunctive relief under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq. Sony argued that the defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, willfully infringed the copyrights of thirty music recordings by using file-sharing software to download and distribute those recordings without authorization from the copyright owners.
The district court entered judgment…
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