Document Type
Article Review
Publication Date
3-25-2015
Language
en-US
Abstract
The law of intermediary liability in intellectual property reflects a constant struggle for balance. On the one hand, rights owners frustrated by the game of whack-a-mole have good reason to look for more efficient ways to stanch the flow of infringement. While this concern is not a new one, the global reach and decentralization of the Internet have exacerbated it. On the flipside, consumers, technology developers, and others fret about the impact of broad liability: it can impede speech, limit competition, and impose a drag on economic sectors with only a peripheral relationship to infringement. As the Supreme Court put it thirty years ago in the seminal Sony case, the law must seek a “balance between a [rights] holder’s legitimate demand for effective – not merely symbolic – protection of the statutory monopoly, and the rights of others freely to engage in substantially unrelated areas of commerce.”
Recommended Citation
Stacey Dogan,
Internet Payment Blockades: SOPA and PIPA in Disguise? Or Worse?
,
in
Intellectual Property JOTWELL
(2015).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/77
Publisher URL
https://ip.jotwell.com/internet-payment-blockades-sopa-and-pipa-in-disguise-or-worse/
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Consumer Protection Law Commons, Courts Commons, Supreme Court of the United States Commons
