MGM. V. Grokster

I was formerly Vice President and General Counsel for Los Angeles based Stirling Bridge, Inc., and GC for its subsidiaries, including StreamCast Networks, Inc.[1], the developer and distributor of Morpheus® - the content agnostic decentralized public peer-to-peer file search and sharing software application. I had the honor of accompanying one of the seminal copyright / content industry vs. technology cases in the current high-tech internet era, the MGM / Grokster case [2], to the Supreme Court of the United States.

For more information about the MGM Case you might refer to:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation site: http://w2.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/
The Library of Congress, Copyright Office site: http://www.copyright.gov/docs/mgm/index.html
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,_Ltd.

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[1] Both are currently in Chapter 7 (liquidation) Bankruptcy in Oregon.

[2] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al., 259 F. Supp. 2d 1029 (C.D. Cal. Apr 25, 2003), aff’d, 380 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. (Cal.) Aug 19, 2004), vacated and remanded, 125 S. Ct. 2764, 545 U.S. 913, 162 L.Ed.2d 781, 2005 WL 1499402, 2005 U.S. Lexis 5212 (U.S. Jun 27, 2005). I joined Stirling Bridge in May 2003. As GC for defendant/respondent StreamCast I “managed” the legal teams, worked on the opposition to the appeal before the Ninth Circuit, the opposition to the Petition to the Supreme Court for Writ of Certiorari, Respondent’s Brief, and oral argument preparation. Candidly, although I tend to be "hands-on" (without micro-managing), the highly skilled and talented professionals of the teams hardly needed "managing." Everyone worked in well oiled collaboration.