Supreme Court May Shape Future Of ISP Liability In Cox Case
Kristian Stout, ICLE’s Director of Innovation Policy is quoted in this Law360 article on the US Supreme Court’s decision on a $1 billion battle between major music publishers and Cox Communications Inc. Read the full article here.
The dispute between music publishers and ISPs underscores the difficult position the parties find themselves in, with the publishers playing “a game of Whac-a-Mole” trying to protect their copyrights, and ISPs having to be “much more aggressive in policing piracy,” said Kristian Stout, director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, a privately funded research group. “There’s kind of a middle ground that needs to be struck,” Stout said. “I don’t think ISPs should be facing billion-dollar treble damages in most cases, but you definitely need to have some kind of repeat infringer policy that gets respected.”