{"id":79,"date":"2004-02-12T02:57:22","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T02:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/79"},"modified":"2004-02-12T02:57:22","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T02:57:22","slug":"mgm-v-grokster-sony-v-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/79","title":{"rendered":"MGM v. Grokster == Sony v. Universal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LawMeme has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/research.yale.edu\/lawmeme\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1324\">side-by-side comparison<\/a> of last week&#8217;s oral argument in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/P2P\/MGM_v_Grokster\/\">MGM v. Grokster<\/a> case and the 1983 Supreme Court oral arguments in the Sony v. Betamax case. Their conclusion: the arguments being used against Grokster are the same ones that lost when the content industry tried to kill the VCR 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"update\">Correction: As a commenter mentioned, the case was <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=US&#038;vol=464&#038;invol=417\">Sony v. Universal<\/a> not Sony v. Betamax \u2014 Sony made Betamax, &#038; was sued by Universal Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LawMeme has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/research.yale.edu\/lawmeme\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1324\">side-by-side comparison<\/a> of last week&#8217;s oral argument in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/IP\/P2P\/MGM_v_Grokster\/\">MGM v. Grokster<\/a> case and the 1983 Supreme Court oral arguments in the Sony v. Betamax case. Their conclusion: the arguments being used against Grokster are the same ones that lost when the content industry tried to kill the VCR 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"update\">Correction: As a commenter mentioned, the case was <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=US&#038;vol=464&#038;invol=417\">Sony v. Universal<\/a> not Sony v. 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