Chapter

Secondary Liability

From Property: Volume 1 Christian Turner Assistant Professor of Law University of Georgia School of Law eLangdell® Press 2012 by Christian

Concepts

  1. Copyright Claim

    "Petitioners manufacture and sell home video tape recorders. Respondents own the copyrights on some of the television programs that are broadcast on the public airwaves. Some members of the general pu

  2. Time-shifting

    "The average member of the public uses a VTR principally to record a program he cannot view as it is being televised and then to watch it once at a later time. This practice, known as “time-shifting,”

  3. Betamax Uses

    "Sony’s Betamax VTR is a mechanism consisting of three basic components: a tuner, which receives electromagnetic signals transmitted over the television band of the public airwaves and separates them

  4. Secondary Liability

    "The Copyright Act does not expressly render anyone liable for infringement committed by another. In contrast, the Patent Act expressly brands anyone who “actively induces infringement of a patent” as

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