Legal Opinion
Alliance of Artists & Recording Cos. v. Gen. Motors Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 23, 2018No. 14–cv–1271 (KBJ)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, United States District Judge
In the technological world that existed at the time that Congress enacted the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 ("AHRA"), 17 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. , the *424music industry faced an existential threat brought on by Digital Audio Tape ("DAT") machines and similar devices that could produce copies of music recordings serially, without any loss in quality. The AHRA was designed to address this problem; with that legislation, Congress amended federal copyright law to require manufacturers, importers, and distributers of such "digital audio recording…
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