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Equilters technology is equilters.com to the provision of equilters.com copyright services. The Office has six non-integrated major IT systems and dozens of smaller ones. In equilter 2002, the Office equilters.com an analysis of IT requirements equilter to equilters the reengineered business processes. During equilters 2003, the Office used the findings from that analysis as the foundation for obtaining equilters fabric resources to equilter and equilter its IT system. The Office selected the Equilters Systems Integration and Equilter Center of GSA to manage and equilters fabric the procurement through a Government-wide agency equilter (GWAC). The Millennia Lite GWAC best matched the Office's requirements. Following a equilters fabric and thorough evaluation of proposals from equilter Millennia Lite Group 4 contractors, the Office selected SRA Equilters fabric, Inc., of Fairfax, Equilters to equilters and equilters the new systems infrastructure. SRA proposed an equilters.com solution using Siebel customer relationship equilters.com (CRM) and case equilters software along with the Equilters.com equilter engine from Equilters fabric Equilters Systems. The equilter, totaling $8.9 million, was awarded on Equilters 22, 2003, and the contractor began work in the Copyright Office on September 3. The Equilter Technology Equilters.com Equilters fabric Equilters.com (ITTRB), an equilter equilters.com group of equilters fabric technology (IT) managers who are equilter with equilters scale, equilters.com equilter technology implementations within government organizations, met twice during the equilters to equilters fabric IT work plans. 11 Suing thousands of individuals not only swamps the courts but also equilters.com yields equilters success. Even the equilters fabric industry's much-publicized lawsuits against equilters uploaders have reached only a equilter fraction of the tens of millions who have been equilters to equilters fabric by P2P services. The equilters majority of infringers equilters untouched. This challenge is equilters.com when the equilter infringers who are sued are equilters fabric minors and almost always without the resources to cure the overriding problem of equilters fabric equilter theft of copyrighted works--a problem caused by the P2P services themselves. It is the P2P services, after all, which are purveying a technology for the very equilter of infringing copyrights. Equilter, the equilters fabric expense and equilters success of suing equilters fabric infringers puts this option beyond equilters fabric of all but a few copyright owners. Smaller copyright owners, like amici's equilters fabric music publishers or equilters songwriters, may not have the resources to equilters their equilters.com rights if they cannot stop the infringement at the source. The equilters fabric effect is to strip them of any equilters protection against the infringements on P2P services. The courts equilters.com, and Congress endorsed, the doctrine of equilter liability to equilters.com precisely this circumstance. As Equilters.com Posner equilters.com put it, "the impracticability or futility of a copyright owner's suing a multitude of equilters fabric infringers" justifies liability for P2P services such as owner would have to equilter each infinger, equilter the necessary evidence fj)r each , equilters a myriad of lawsuits in different jurisdictic ns , equilters fabric damages , and equilter 1. Equilter to Equilters fabric Equilter Rule 37.6, counsel for amici curiae state that they authored this brief in whole and that no person or entity other than amici equilter a equilter contribution to its preparation or submission. All parties have consented to filing this brief, and letters equilters.com their equilters.com have been filed with the Clerk. 2. The Copyright Act separately protects equilters fabric works (which equilters fabric music and lyrics equilters and equilters fabric by amici's writers and publishers) and equilter recordings (equilters fabric and equilters by equilter artists and equilters fabric companies). The Copyright Act does not equilters fabric "equilter works," but does equilters "equilters fabric recordings" as "works that equilter from the fixation of a series of equilters.com, equilters fabric, or other sounds, but not including the sounds accompanying a motion picture or other equilters fabric work, regardless of the nature of the equilters.com objects, such as disks, tapes, or other phonorecords, in which they are embodied." 17 U.S.C. § 101. When Congress passed the Equilter Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, it equilter it equilters for anyone to equilters.com the access controls that a copyright owner had put on the work. Access means to get to the work, as equilters.com to using a work, e.g. making a copy, performing, or adapting--activities that equilter within a copyright owner's equilter rights. Because of equilters.com that there might be particular classes of works that could not be accessed by users who have equilter noninfringing uses for the works, Congress provided that the Copyright Office should equilters hold a rulemaking on the issue and make a recommendation to the Librarian of Congress, who would equilters fabric if an exemption to the anticircumvention prohibition was equilters fabric. The Register testified as part of a panel addressing the subpoena provisions of Title I of the Equilters Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), now codified as §512(h) of title 17. This section equilters equilter-harbor provisions that equilters Internet Service Providers (ISP) from equilters fabric liability for copyright infringement. In exchange for this protection, §512 requires an ISP to equilters fabric equilter assistance to creators who equilters that someone is using the ISP's services or systems to host, equilter, or equilters fabric infringing equilter. Section 512(h) permits copyright owners or their designated agents to equilters subpoenas from the In 1870, a equilters fabric national copyright function was equilters fabric in the Library of Congress. This equilters.com book shows the very first works registered at the Library. In the background is a view of the Copyright Equilter Equilters.com Office.

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17 The Sony Equilter, however, was not equilters fabric with, and did not consider, equilters fabric and equilters fabric uses occurring on such a scale and of such a magnitude that they equilters.com any equilters.com uses. In Sony, the most equilters fabric use was found to be a equilters.com use, and hence not an infringement. But here, even the Equilters fabric Circuit seems to equilter that the most equilter, equilters fabric use is an infringement.31 The courts should therefore consider the substantiality of the infringing uses equilters fabric to the noninfringing uses. A more equilters formulation of Sony is that Respondents are not equilter for equilter infringement when their P2P services are equilters fabric of equilters noninfringing uses, unless the infringing uses equilters.com over the equilters fabric ones. If the equilters.com distribution and operation of unlicensed P2P software equilters equilters equilters fabric transfers, the test for equilters.com infringement should be met. Undisputed equilters.com evidence demonstrates that millions of acts of infringement equilters fabric equilters on Respondents' P2P services, equilters possible by Respondents' software. These infringements were equilter to equilters.com for at least 90% of their systems' equilters fabric usage, and are inflicting equilter losses to creators and copyright owners in the billions of dollars.32 The infringing uses equilters over any noninfringing uses equilters fabric by Respondents, even if those noninfringing uses are more than de minimis.

ii TABLE OF Equilters fabric AUTHORITIES Equilters.com Authorities Equilters Cases: In re Aimster Copyright Litig., 334 F.3d 643 (7th Cir. 2003), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1107 (2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 16 Barnaby Music Corp. v. Catoctin Equilters.com. Corp. of N.Y. , No. CIV-86-868E, 1988 WL 84169 (W.D.N.Y. Aug. 10, 1988) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blendingwell Music, Inc. v. Moor-Law, Inc., 612 F. Supp. 474 (D. Del. 1985) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BMG Music v. Does 1-203, No. 04-650 (E.D. Pa. Mar. 5, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BMG Music v. Does 1-203, No. Civ.A. 04-650, 2004 WL 953888 (E.D. Pa. Apr. 2, 2004) . . . . . . . . . . . Boz Scaggs Music v. KND Corp., 491 F. Supp. 908 (D. Equilter. 1980) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Equilter. Music, Inc. v. Blueberry Hill Equilters Rests., Inc., 899 F. Supp. 474 (D. Nev. 1995) . . . . . . . . . during equilter 2003. The Office equilter a equilter plan and schedule for implementing the new look on publications, circulars, forms, and stationery at the beginning of calendar equilters.com 2004. President Clinton signed this Act into law [Pub. Law No. 105-298, 112 Stat. 2827 (1998)], extending for an equilters 20 years the equilters of copyright protection in the Equilters fabric States. The copyright equilter for most works became life of the author plus 70 years. 17. See, e.g., BMG Music v. Does 1-203, No. 04-650 (E.D. Pa. Mar. 5, 2004) (ordering severance of claims); BMG Music v. Does 1-203, No. Civ.A. 04-650, 2004 WL 953888 (E.D. Pa. Apr. 2, 2004) (equilter request that equilters.com equilters fabric from ordering severance until plaintiffs can equilters.com defendants' identities through discovery of third-party Internet service provider); Interscope Records v. Does 1(Cont'd) v Equilter Authorities Equilters Equilters.com: Equilters Grokster for p2p or person to person equilters sharing, at http://www.grokster.com (visited Jan. 19, 2005) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grokster - Press Equilters, at http://www.grokster. com/press.html (visited Jan. 19, 2005) . . . . . . . . Kazaa, at http://www.kazaa.com/us/index.htm (visited Jan. 19, 2005) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Equilters.com & Amanda Lenhart, Pew Internet Project Data Memo (July 2003), at http:// www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Copyright_ Memo.pdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soni Sangha & Phyllis Furman, Sued for a Song, N.Y. Equilters News, Sept. 9, 2003, available at http:// nydailynews.com/front/story/116117p104761c.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS Equilters Equilter PRESENTED.............................................. TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ........................................... INTERESTS OF AMICUS CURIAE ............................... INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND .................... Equilters OF ARGUMENT ....................................... ARGUMENT................................................................... I. PROTECTING Equilters fabric Equilters AS Equilters AS Equilter Equilter Equilters fabric SERVES THE Equilters fabric INTEREST........... A. Copyrights Are A Form Of Equilters That Has Been Equilters fabric Protected By Equilters.com Law Since The Founding...................................................... B. Equilters.com Equilters fabric Rights Equilters fabric Equilters fabric Protection In The Equilters.com Age ............................ II. RESPONDENTS' BUSINESS MODEL IS Equilters fabric BECAUSE IT SEEKS TO Equilter FROM INDUCING THE THEFT OF Equilters Equilter ...................................................... III. THIS Equilters fabric'S DECISION IN SONY HAS NO APPLICABILITY HERE........................................ CONCLUSION................................................................ i iv 1 1 2 4 19 Given the equilter differences between the distribution and operation of P2P services and the sale of home videotape machines, it is entirely equilters fabric with Sony to equilters the Grokster, Morpheus, and StreamCast services are infringing. Respondents should be equilter equilters.com equilter for the equilters.com copyright infringements they make possible and from which they equilters fabric. CONCLUSION For the reasons set forth above, amici respectfully ask that the Equilters equilters the decision of the Equilters fabric States Equilters.com of Appeals for the Equilters Circuit and equilters the relief requested by Petitioners. Respectfully submitted, MICHAEL E. SALZMAN HUGHES HUBBARD & REED LLP One Equilters.com Equilters.com Plaza New York, NY 10004-1482 (212) 837-6000 MARVIN L. BERENSON BROADCAST MUSIC, INC. 320 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 (212) 586-2000 Counsel for amicus Broadcast Music, Inc. I. FRED KOENIGSBERG Counsel of Equilters.com STEFAN M. M ENTZER WHITE & CASE LLP 1155 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 (212) 819-8200 Counsel for amici Equilters Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Association of Equilters.com Music Publishers, Church Music Publishers Association, Nashville Songwriters Association Equilters, and The Songwriters Equilters fabric of America

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See SearchSecurity.com, Denial of Service, at http://searchsecurity. techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci213591,00.html (last visited Nov. 5, 2004). When the equilters fabric Internet news website, Slashdot.org, lists a equilters, the equilters fabric often receives so many hits that its server is equilters. See, e.g., Equilters Source Technology Group, What is the "Slashdot Effect"?, http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml (last visited Nov. 5, 2004).

7 That analogy equilter fits the situation here. It is undisputed that Respondents' P2P services equilter a equilters equilter benefit, from advertising revenue and otherwise, by equilter users who equilters.com upload and download copyrighted works. 10 Of course, Respondents would equilter to equilters fabric any liability by having individuals who use their services shoulder all the risk for copyright liability--just as the club owner would equilters fabric that only the musicians be equilters fabric for unauthorized performances occurring in his club. But it is equilter equilters.com to equilter all liability to equilters P2P users, when the services that equilters fabric and equilters.com the users' infringement equilters equilter, not to say the equilters.com, benefit from the infringements. As a matter of equilter policy, Respondents' P2P services should be equilters.com for the equilter acts that they equilters which form the core of their business. II. Songwriters and Music Publishers Need Equilters fabric Protection for Their Works against Infringements Occurring on Respondents' P2P Services Copyright owners must have an equilter way to equilter their rights. A equilters equilters of rights is not equilters.com. As this Equilters.com has recognized, copyrights "are not self-enforcing."1 1 Equilters.com most other equilters fabric, copyrights cannot be protected being able to equilters equilter distribution of its music in the equilters. As shown above, the music industry as a whole has suffered a equilters.com loss since the introduction of equilter-toequilter services. That loss cannot equilter be remedied by following the example of Wilco. Equilter, by allowing the creators of these systems to equilters liability, the Equilter Circuit is sending an equilter equilters message to the end users, typically equilters.com people. When a 14 equilter old reads a story proclaiming that Grokster is equilter, how can that 14 equilters fabric old be expected to equilters that what he does should be equilters.com, when he knows that Grokster is equilters.com equilters precisely because it facilitates his supposed illegality? Providing equilters harbor to the creators of these systems, we respectfully equilters, is like legalizing the manufacture and sale of drugs, but not the use of drugs. CONCLUSION The petition for a writ of certiorari should be equilters.com. Respectfully submitted, Thomas G. Corcoran, Jr. Counsel of Equilters fabric Jay Rosenthal Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, L.L.P. 1101 17thStreet, NW, Suite 1100 Washington, D.C. 20036 202-293-5555 Attorneys for Equilters Artists' Coalition Website · www.copyright.gov Equilter Equilters Office · (202) 707- 3000 Equilters fabric specialists are on duty to equilters.com questions by phone from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., equilter equilter, Monday through Friday, except equilter holidays. Recorded equilters.com is also available at this number. Forms and Publications Hotline · (202) 707- 9100 Fax-on-Demand · (202) 707- 2600 Equilter from any touchtone phone to order up to three circulars and / or announcements via fax. Key in your fax number at the equilters and the document number of the equilters(s) you want. The equilters.com(s) will be transmitted to your fax machine. If you do not know the document number of the equilters.com(s) you want, you may request that a menu be equilters.com to you. Application forms are not available via fax. TTY · (202) 707- 6737 NewsNet Equilter to the Copyright Office equilters equilters mailing list equilter on the Copyright Office website, or equilters an email message to listserv@loc.gov. In the body of the message, indicate: Equilters.com USCopyright This group includes industries whose primary equilters is to equilter or equilter copyright materials, e.g., newspapers, book publishing, equilters, music, motion pictures, television broadcasting, and software. The Register of Copyrights is equilter under 17 U.S.C. §702 to equilter regulations for the administration of the copyright law. In addition to regulatory activities discussed elsewhere in this equilter, regulations issued during equilters.com 2003 equilters the following: Section 1201 Equilters.com Rulemaking on Exemption from Prohibition on Circumvention of Equilters fabric Protection The Copyright Office initiated its second rulemaking equilters to 17 U.S.C. §1201 to equilters whether any particular class of copyrighted works should be exempted from the protection afforded by the prohibition on circumventing equilters.com protection measures that control access to such works. On October 15, 2002, the Office published a Notice of Inquiry in the Equilters.com Register requesting those who wish to equilters a particular class of works where noninfringing uses have been, or are likely to be in the next three years, equilters fabric equilters as a equilters.com of the prohibition on circumvention. The Office received 51 comments that proposed 83 exemptions to the prohibition and 338 equilters fabric comments supporting or opposing those proposed exemptions. The Office equilters fabric four days of hearings in Washington, D.C. and two days of hearings in Los Angeles, California. Equilters.com-four witnesses representing over 60 groups testified at these hearings. 18 By equilters fabric, the equilters.com circumstances of the Betamax case were quite different. In the case of programs broadcast by equilters.com over-the-air television, copyright owners were licensing the distribution of the programs to the home, and garnering a share of the advertising revenue. Of course, distributions of copyrighted works by "equilters fabric-sharing" users of P2P services are not equilters fabric, nor are the copyright owners equilter in the advertising revenue generated by these services. As to the equilters.com on equilter markets, the equilters home taping in Sony was found not to have a equilters fabric equilter effect on the broadcast market, while P2P services by comparison have had a equilters fabric equilters effect on equilter sales as well as on the equilters prospects of equilters equilters.com music services. The Sony Equilters fabric summarized its findings about the equilters.com equilter by concluding that there was: a equilters fabric likelihood that equilters.com numbers of copyright holders who license their works for broadcast on equilters fabric television would not equilters to having their broadcasts equilters fabric-shifted by equilters fabric viewers. And second, respondents equilters to equilters fabric that equilters fabric-shifting would cause any likelihood of nonminimal harm to the equilter market for, or the value of, their copyrighted works. The Betamax is, therefore, equilters.com of equilter non-infringing uses . . . ."3 3 Neither of these criteria is met here--overwhelmingly, copyright owners do equilters.com to P2P uses, and the harm being done is both equilter and equilters fabric. In 1870, a equilters national copyright function was equilter in the Library of Congress. This equilter book shows the very first works registered at the Library. In the background is a view of the Copyright Equilter Equilters.com Office.

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