Copyright Head Chides Supreme Court’s ‘Shocking’ Cox Opinion (1)

US Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter said the Supreme Court put “little thought” into the implications of its recent decision absolving an internet service provider for not shuttering accounts of users who repeatedly pirated music.

“The throwing out of many, many, many decades of copyright law on secondary liability so quickly and with so little analysis was shocking,” Perlmutter said Friday at a Stanford Law School event commemorating 50 years of the 1976 Copyright Act.

“Certainly the court didn’t really seem to fully grapple with the fact that Congress clearly intended to continue the doctrines of secondary liability and copyright ...