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Secondary Liability: Napster

William Fisher

© 2010. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

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Napster Website

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Napster Website Directory

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Napster holdings   Use of the Napster system to “sample” songs is not

a fair use   Because Napster is capable of a substantial

noninfringing use, the operators of the system lack the “constructive knowledge” of infringing uses necessary to support contributory liability

  Because the Napster operators can ascertain whether a particular recording is being copied illegitimately, they have timely “actual knowledge” of specific acts of infringement necessary to support contributory liability

  For the same reason, the Napster operators have the “supervisory control” necessary to support vicarious infringement