Get your bets down on Grokster

At 3:45 PM -0400 6/2/05, Steven Jamar wrote:
>Last SCOTUS opinions tend to be the last monday in June. Sometimes
>they come out a bit later than that, I think.
>
>My guess is that Grokster will be in the last week of opinion release.

I'll take 6/16, 9-0 to reverse and remand, but appellants are the real losers. It's time to refine Sony, and they love to reverse the 9th Cir. The district court has to hear some evidence on the meaningfulness of the claimed substantial non-infringing uses before ruling that the potential for legitimate uses, even if currently unrealized or overwhelmed by infringing uses, cannot be foreclosed. Tie-breaker: Kennedy for the Court.

Fair warning -- my money was on White House staffer Charles Lichenstein for Deep Throat.

John Noble Received on Fri Jun 03 2005 - 01:50:00 GMT