Corporations & securities brief ~ SEC reconsiders Sarbanes-Oxley impact on foreign corporations
Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, SEC Chairman William Donaldson stated in a speech today that the agency is considering changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to ease burden on foreign companies. Companies in both...
Edward Lee, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University:"The Supreme Court decided to hear the Grokster case, which involves the question whether p2p software distributors can be held secondarily liable for the infringing acts of some users of the software....
Corporations & securities brief ~ Record labels sue Kazaa for copyright infringements
In Monday's corporations and securities news, several leading record labels, including EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and Universal, are suing Sharman Networks, the firm behind leading file-swapping software Kazaa in an Australian court. Sharman says it has no control over...
Congress has approved a program that creates a federal copyright enforcement czar, as part of the omnibus spending bill passed over the weekend. Under the new legislation, the president can appoint a copyright law enforcement officer to coordinate federal...
Congress unlikely to pass peer-to-peer piracy bill before Thanksgiving holiday
US Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters said Thursday during an intellectual property conference at the John Marshall School of Law that Congress would not enact the Inducing Infringement Copyrights Act , also known as the Induce Act, before...
9th Circuit upholds ruling allowing music sampling by Beastie Boys
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused on Tuesday to reconsider a decision it made last year that the music group Beastie Boys could use short samples of others' music in its own songs. The practice of "sampling"...
