Amicus brief filed on behalf of entertainment unions in landmark Supreme Court file-sharing case
June 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 545 U.S. 913(2005), that distributors of peer to peer file-sharing computer software (e.g., distributors of Grokster, Morpheus and KaZaA) can be held liable for the resulting copyright infringement. Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC filed an amicus brief in support of that result, on behalf of the American Federation of Musicians, the American Federation of Radio & Television Artists, the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors’ Guild and the Writers’ Guild of America West.