posted on November 9, 2000 09:26:04 AM new
I subscribe to one of those online newsletters "infobeat" and this was reported in todays issue(excerpts):
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A judge ruled online auctioneer eBay Inc. cannot be sued for allowing people to sell bootlegged audio recordings on its Web site. In a ruling late Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Stuart Pollak in San Francisco County dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Grateful Dead fan who sought to stop sales of illegal concert recordings of the band. The litigation did not focus on copyright infringement as has the Napster Inc. case. In dismissing the suit, Pollak said he based his ruling on the Communications Decency Act, which forbids computer service providers for being punished for the speech of others.
