Copyrights in Digital Information. When she was in college, Jammie Thomas$-$Rasset wrote

a case study on Napster, the online peer$-$to$-$peer $($P$2$P$)$ file$-$sharing network, and knew that it had

been shut down because it was illegal. Later, Capitol Records, Inc., which owns the copyrights to

a large number of music recordings, discovered that $$tereastarr$$a user name associated with

Thomas$-$Rasset$$s Internet protocol address$$had made twenty$-$four songs available for

distribution on KaZaA, another P$2$P network. Capitol notified Thomas$-$Rasset that she had been

identified as engaging in the unauthorized trading of music. She replaced the hard drive on her

computer with a new drive that did not contain the songs in dispute. $[$Capitol Records, Inc. v$.$

Thomas$-$Rasset, $692$ F$\mathrm{.}3$d $899(8$th Cir. $2012)]$

a$)$ Is Thomas$-$Rasset liable for copyright infringement? Explain why.

b$)$ Does Thomas$-$Rasset$$s use of copyrighted material constitute fair use? Why or why not?

c$)$ Capitol Records is a major corporation that owns many, many copyrights on many songs. This

case alleges copyright infringement on only twenty$-$four songs. Why is it important for Capitol

Records to bring this case, in spite of the relatively small number of songs?