Music Publishers Call 2nd Circuit’s Direct Liability Standard ‘Impossibly Narrow’

(July 14, 2023, 7:27 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ holding that direct copyright liability can be found only against “the person who actually presses the button” to make infringing copies runs counter to the Copyright Act and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, a group of music publishers tells the high court in a reply brief supporting their petition for certiorari....