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Charter Challenges Copyright Registrations of Music Recordings

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Record giants scored a coup late last year when a Virginia jury not only held Cox Communications liable for copyright infringement but also returned a $1 billion verdict punishing the internet service provider for contributing to music piracy.

Warner, Sony, Universal, EMI and other record labels are now looking to follow up on this win with another in a similar case against Charter Communications, but the defendant is pushing back with a broad challenge to ownership rights.

In Colorado federal court, Charter and the record labels have each briefed the judge on the issue of whether record labels improperly registered recordings as works for hire with the U.S.

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