The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology and many other associations and organizations told a federal court that the law requires caution in assessing whether to impose copyright liability on the makers of multi-use technologies.
There is a trade-off between artistic protection and technological innovation here, and many different facets of the US innovation economy are united to both punish bad actors and protect legitimate innovators.
In a legal brief filed in a lawsuit against the peer-to-peer file sharing service LimeWire, CDT and its allies did not take sides but rather urged the court to decide the case within the careful framework established by previous Supreme Court cases in this area. Those cases make clear that distributing a technology with “substantial noninfringing uses” should not raise rise copyright liability concerns, as long as the distributor does not actively promote the technology’s use for infringement. Reinterpreting or expanding secondary copyright liability in ways that undermine this crucial limitation, the brief warned, it could significantly chill technological innovation.
William Shakespeare was right, There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Ciao Flavia,
Luca Barbareschi is only the top of this iceberg, unfortunately. All over the world Media companies are lobbying against peer-to-peer usage, and Europe seems at high risk for the current legislative efforts to make it illegal.