Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers. -Fred Von Lohmann

 

Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers.


Comments

There are not yet any comments on this quote. Why not register / login and be the first?




This quote is just one of 9 total Fred Von Lohmann quotes in our collection. Fred Von Lohmann is known for saying 'Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers.' as well as some of the following quotes.

It really shows they are becoming a grown-up company. The Internet companies are belatedly realizing that they can't ignore Washington.

Fred Von Lohmann

I think people are encouraged that now you have television episodes that you can download. It shows that (the industry) is finally beginning to take seriously the demand for online.

Fred Von Lohmann

Now that the Sony debacle is widely known, it's pretty much known that other bad guys will be looking for vulnerability in copy protection technology.

Fred Von Lohmann

Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers.

Fred Von Lohmann

Hollywood wants to put a mark -- sort of like a mark of the beast for video content -- that says that this is MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) content, and we want to control what you can do with it.

Fred Von Lohmann