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Majors hit back at Cox’s latest attempt to overturn billion dollar copyright ruling

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Cox Communications • 3 min read

Majors hit back at Cox’s latest attempt to overturn billion dollar copyright ruling

Cox Communications' latest attempt to overturn a $1 billion copyright infringement ruling has been rebuffed by the major labels. The ISP claims evidence mishandling, but the majors say that Cox “lost this case in a fairly litigated trial", urging the court to reject its attempt to force a retrial…

Chris Cooke • 07 Aug 2024

Cox tells Fourth Circuit it should overturn copyright case because of record label misconduct

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Cox tells Fourth Circuit it should overturn copyright case because of record label misconduct

Cox Communications is having another go at overturning the judgement in its legal battle with the record industry. It has already managed to force a review of the damages it must pay, but says that the entire judgement should be overturned because of misconduct by the majors in the original trial…

Chris Cooke • 29 May 2024

Cox Communications sues its insurers over costs of its BMG copyright dispute

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Cox Communications • 2 min read

Cox Communications sues its insurers over costs of its BMG copyright dispute

Back in 2015, BMG successfully sued internet firm Cox over its users’ copyright infringement, prompting a flurry of similar lawsuits from the majors. BMG and Cox ultimately reached an out of court settlement in 2018. All these years later, Cox is now suing its insurers over the costs it incurred…

Chris Cooke • 29 Apr 2024

Fourth Circuit court declines to rehear billion dollar Cox copyright case

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Cox Communications • 2 min read

Fourth Circuit court declines to rehear billion dollar Cox copyright case

The dispute between Cox and the major record companies will not be considered for a second time by the Fourth Circuit Appeals court, meaning its previous ruling stands: The ISP is liable for copyright infringement but the billion dollars in damages it was told to pay the labels should be reviewed…

Chris Cooke • 20 Mar 2024

Cox again challenges the copyright claims of the major record companies, which in turn try to retain their billion dollar pay day

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Cox again challenges the copyright claims of the major record companies, which in turn try to retain their billion dollar pay day

Both Cox Communications and the major record companies have made filings with the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court in their ongoing copyright legal battle. The ISP again argues it isn’t liable for copyright infringement. The majors are trying to retain their billion dollars in damages.…

Chris Cooke • 08 Mar 2024

Setlist Podcast: The music business in 2024

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Setlist Podcast: The music business in 2024

In a special edition of the show, we preview our latest series of music business masterclasses…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 26 Feb 2024

Music industry’s billion dollar damages win in Cox case overturned

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Music industry’s billion dollar damages win in Cox case overturned

In 2019 the music industry won a billion dollars in damages in a copyright lawsuit against internet company Cox Communications - but that ruling has now been overturned on appeal, even though appeal judges confirmed that the ISP is liable for copyright infringement…

Chris Cooke • 21 Feb 2024

Cox Communications • 3 min read

Music industry wins billion dollar damages as jury rules in Cox case

In August 2018 the major record companies sued US ISP Cox Communications for copyright infringement, following previous legal action by BMG. The jury is now back - and has decided against Cox, meaning they are now on the hook for a billion dollars in damages.…

Chris Cooke • 20 Dec 2019

Cox Communications • 2 min read

Major labels sue Cox Communications

After BMG's legal action against Cox - which was one of the big safe harbour copyright cases in the US - the major labels are now suing the US ISP, saying that the internal procedures the company has for dealing with repeat infringers is a "sham".…

Chris Cooke • 02 Aug 2018