London-Sire Records, Inc. v. Doe 1

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the segment of a hard disc on which an electronic music file is encoded is a \phonorecord\ under the Copyright Act
• noting a “lacuna in the Fourth Circuit’s reasoning” because “[i]t is a ‘distribution’ that the statute plainly requires”
• characterizing the holding of National Car Rental as “stating that infringement of the distribution right requires the actual dissemination of copies or phonorec-ords”
• finding it is reasonable to infer that distribution actually took place “where the defendant has completed all the necessary steps for public distribution”
• noting, in context of third factor, that only “ISP has any record of which IP addresses were assigned to which users”
• noting, in context of third factor, that only “ISP has any record of which IP addresses were assigned to which users”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).