Labels Ask 5th Circuit To Affirm $46M Award For ISP’s Contributory Infringement

(December 15, 2023, 9:43 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — An internet service provider’s (ISP) knowledge that its subscribers were engaging in online “mass infringement” of their copyrighted music, coupled with its failure to act on that knowledge, were more than sufficient to support a jury’s finding of contributory infringement and an accompanying damages award of $46 million, record labels argue in their appellee brief in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....