A & M RECORDS, INC., a corporation; Geffen Records, Inc., a corporation; Interscope Records, a general partnership; Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., a corporation; MCA Records, Inc., a corporation; Atlantic Recording Corporation, a corporation; Island Records, Inc., a corporation; Motown Records Company L.P., a limited partnership; Capitol Records, a corporation; La Face Records, a joint venture; BMG Music d/b/a The RCA Records Label, a general partnership; Universal Records Inc., a corporation; Elektra Entertainment Group Inc., a corporation; Arista Records, Inc., a corporation; Sire Records Group, Inc., a corporation; Polygram Records, Inc., a corporation; Virgin Records America, Inc., a corporation; and Warner Bros. Records Inc., a corporation, Plaintiffs,
v.
NAPSTER, INC., a corporation, and Does 1-100, Defendants.
Jerry Leiber, individually and d/b/a Jerry Leiber Music; Mike Stoller, individually and d/b/a Mike Stoller Music; and Frank Music Corp., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs,
v.
Napster, Inc., Defendant.
United States District Court, N.D. California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 10, 2000.
August 10, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Russell J. Frackman, Jeffrey D. Goldman, George M. Borkowski, Drew E. Breuder, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles, CA, William M. Hart, Eric J. German, Frank P. Schibilia, Carla M. Miller, Hank L. Goldsmith, Leon P. Gold, Lawrence L. Weinstein, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, Hadrian R. Katz, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, Steven B. Fabrizio, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.
Lisa M. Arent, Melinda M. Morton, Michael A. Brille, Samuel A. Kaplan, William Jackson, Seth A. Goldberg, Fenwick & West LLP, Palo Alto, CA, Laurence F. Pulgram, Kathryn J. Fritz, Fenwick & West LLP, San Francisco, CA, David Boies, Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, Armonk, NY, for Defendants.
Albert P. Bedecarre, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for amicus.
United States District Court, N.D. California.
OPINION
PATEL, Chief Judge.
The matter before the court concerns the boundary between sharing and theft, personal use and the unauthorized world-wide distribution of copyrighted music and sound recordings.1 On December 6, 1999, A & M Records and seventeen other record companies ("record company plaintiffs") filed a complaint for contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, violations of the California Civil Code section...
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