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Judge Denies Cox Communications' Appeal Bid in $1B Copyright Case

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The cable and internet service provider will be allowed to "recalculate" the number of infringed works tallied by the jury, but a request for a new trial was rejected.

In February, Cox Communications filed an appeal to the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit it lost last year to major labels and publishers, claiming the total was “grossly excessive.” Now the majority of Cox's challenges have been struck down.

In a judgment filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Liam O’Grady denied Cox’s request for a new trial in the lawsuit originally filed by the Record Industry Association of America and the “Big Three” record labels -- Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group -- and their publishing entities

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