Location: Ono Auditorium

Speaker: Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Sol Goldman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School)

Language: English and Japanese (Consecutive Translation)

Outline: This lecture will introduce the doctrinal foundations of indirect copyright infringement through the lens of Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, one of the most significant recent U.S. cases in this area. The case has attracted particular attention for clarifying the conditions under which intermediaries may be held liable for third-party infringement and for testing the limits of established safe harbor frameworks. As such, it provides an important point of reference for understanding the evolving boundaries of secondary liability in contemporary copyright law.