Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment · ¶59

The infexible limit the majority imposes is nowhere to be found in either Sony or Grokster, the only authorities that the majority cites, see ante, at 592–593. Beginning with Sony, although that case acknowledged that the Copyright Act does not expressly provide for secondary liability, it also clarified that “[t]he absence of such express language in the copyright statute does not preclude the imposition of” secondary liability, such as vicarious and contributory liability, because both forms of liability are “imposed in virtually all areas of the law.” 464 U. S., at 434–435; see id., at 436 (Contributory liability principles are “ `recognized in every part of the law' ”). Far from supporting the majority's limitation of secondary liability, Sony teaches that the scope of secondary liability for copyright infringement should be defined by reference to other areas of the law. Id., at…

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