Legal Opinion
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC v. Cox Communications, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided August 8, 2016No. Civil No. 1:14-cv-1611PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*963Memorandum Opinion
Liam O’Grady, United States District Judge
This case presents the question of whether a conduit internet service provider may be held liable for the infringing activity of its subscribers based on the uploading and downloading of copyrighted musical works using' BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing network. The plaintiff ih this action, BMG Rights Management (US) LLC (“BMG”), seeks to hold Cox Communications, Inc. and CoxCom, LLC (collectively, “Cox”) secondarily hable for the reproduction and distribution of 1,397 musical composition copyrights by users of Cox’s…
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