Cox Asks Justices to Nix Copyright Loss in $1 Billion Music Case

Cox Communications Inc. asked the US Supreme Court to review its liability for not terminating users who pirated music, arguing in a petition filed Thursday the finding “threatens mass evictions from the internet.”

A slew of music publishers won a landmark $1 billion dollar verdict in 2019 for willful contributory and vicarious infringement—a total that was remanded after an appeals court affirmed one of two theories of liability. Cox’s petition said courts have split on the liability standard for internet service providers in copyright piracy cases, and argued the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s opinion would force ...