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Legal
LimeWire appeal
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 1 June 2010
LimeWire has already appealed the previously reported ruling against the file-sharing company in which a US judge said the Lime Group company and its founder Mark Gorton were liable for contributory and inducing copyright infringement by providing file-sharing software and services. It was an uncontroversial decision really, given the precedent set in US Supreme Court case MGM v Grokster, though the American record industry’s legal fight against the file-sharing company has been long drawn out.
LimeWire maintains it shouldn’t be held liable for its users copyright infringements, and in a new motion filed with the New York courts says the above mentioned judge made a number of errors in his analysis of the legalities of the record industry’s case, and failed to follow procedural rules regarding summary judgements.
And so the case continues. Possibly forever.
