RIAA Lawsuits and Noerr-Pennington Immunity
Catherine R. Gellis
Digital Age Defense
December 21, 2004
Abstract:
This paper considers whether the voluminous RIAA filesharing litigation would be entitled to Noerr-Pennington Immunity if it otherwise ran afoul of antitrust law, ultimately concluding that, under the Sham Exception to the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, it would not.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 16
Keywords: RIAA, filesharing, lawsuit, litigation, Noerr-Pennington, antitrust, sham exception
working papers series
Suggested Citation
Gellis, Catherine R., RIAA Lawsuits and Noerr-Pennington Immunity (December 21, 2004). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=933121 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.933121
