Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment · ¶19

Sony Music Entertainment and the other plaintiffs in this case are major music copyright owners. They have struggled to protect their copyrights in the age of online music sharing. Today, anyone with an Internet connection and easily obtained software can upload digital copies of copyrighted music and make them available for others to download. This practice often infringes the owners' exclusive rights to copy and distribute their works. §§ 106(1), (3). Copyright owners can, and do, sue the individuals who infringe their copyrights in this manner. See, e. g., Sony BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, 660 F. 3d 487, 490 (CA1 2011). However, because online infringement is so widespread, pursuing each individual infringer does little to stem the tide.

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