Legal Scholar at Harvard Switches Sides in File-Sharing Case

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

In Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster Ltd., the file-sharing case that the U.S. Supreme Court decided last week, the battle lines were sharply drawn between the entertainment industry on one side and file-sharing companies and scholars on the other. Even after the court ruled unanimously in favor of the music and movie...