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Music Industry Faces Dual Setbacks

Just as the reinvigorated Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed its third wave of lawsuits to thwart the trading of copyrighted music…

14 minute read December 01, 2003 at 10:16 AM
By
Samuel Fineman
Music Industry Faces Dual Setbacks

Just as the reinvigorated Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed its third wave of lawsuits to thwart the trading of copyrighted music online, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a watershed ruling, struck a critical blow to the viability of those suits brought under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. 512(h).

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