Grande, Music Labels Clash Over Admission of Rightscorp Evidence in Suit
Cable ISP Grande Communications and the music labels suing it for vicarious copyright infringements (see 1805070011) are butting heads over what evidence stemming from the Rightscorp copyright infringement detection system can be used as evidence. Grande is making "a desperate…
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attempt" to suppress Rightscorp evidence it knows establishes its liability for contributory copyright infringement, UMG Recordings and the others said in a docket 17-cv-00365 opposition (in Pacer) posted Thursday in U.S. District Court in Austin. Grande's claims that all the evidence needed to show how Rightscorp's system operated has been destroyed are demonstrably false, the labels said. Grande, in its motion (in Pacer) for evidentiary sanctions filed earlier this month, said UMG and the others concluded some materials underlying Rightscorp's copyright infringement notices were irretrievably destroyed, which "fundamentally compromised" Grande's ability to evaluate Rightscorp's infringement allegations.