Robinson v. Pierce County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that unauthorized online transfer of digital musical files infringes copyright owner's reproduction right
• explaining that “a case may exist where one’s contribution to the creation of an infringing copy is so great that it warrants holding that party directly liable for the infringement, even though another party has actually made the copy.”
• considering a “not previously addressed” question of whether transferring a digital music file from a user’s computer such that “the same file is transferred and no copying occurs” constitutes publication
• “[T]he first sale defense is limited to material items, like records, that the 19 copyright owner put into the stream of commerce.”
• “the reproduction right is necessarily implicated when a copyrighted work is embodied in a new material object”
• “Courts have consistently held that the unauthorized duplication of digital music files over the Internet infringes a copyright owner’s exclusive right to reproduce.”

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