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A Shark-Proof Cage for Interactive Streaming Music Services? Testing the Limits of the DMCA Safe Harbor Immunity in the Era of Grooveshark

2012; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2335563

1556-5068

Joe Silver,

Business Law and Ethics

This issue brief centers on the pending litigation surrounding the popular and controversial online music streaming service, Grooveshark, a subsidiary of the unfortunately named Escape Media Group, Inc., as a case study for the applicability and reliability of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“The DMCA”) Safe Harbor Protections outlined in 17 U.S.C. § 512 (a) through (d) for Online Service Providers (“OSPs”) today.