Notable copyright developments in 2023, part four

By John McKeown (January 16, 2024, 10:07 AM EST) -- Authorizing Infringement: In Voltage Holdings, LLC v. Doe #1 2023 FCA 194, Voltage Holdings, LLC, a movie production company, and the owner of the copyright in the film Revolt, detected that Internet users at certain IP addresses were making the film available using BitTorrent software, a protocol for distributing files on a peer-to-peer network. BitTorrent is well suited for transferring large files such as movies, music or computer software due to its capacity to upload and download files from a group of hosts instead of from a single source server....