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LimeWire and Music Labels Face Off Over Damages

Via CourthouseNews.com:

"Attorneys offered competing explanations of how major record labels view file-sharing software as opening arguments kicked off the damages trial against former LimeWire CEO Mark Gorton on Wednesday.

...

The eight-person jury listening to opening arguments on Wednesday afternoon will not determine whether LimeWire's peer-to-peer file-sharing is illegal; a judge already determined that it was in May 2010.

Instead, jurors will decide how much Gorton owes the labels in damages."

Courthouse News has more details in their coverage here:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/05/05/36369.htm

[Posted at 05/05/2011 11:16 AM by Justin Levine on The IP Wars comments(0)]

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