Courts Disagree on Legality of Uploading

April 5th, 2008 By MARK JEWELL, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Leaving a copyrighted song where others can get at it with peer-to-peer software doesn't constitute a copyright violation until someone downloads it, a federal judge said in a record industry lawsuit against college students.

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