"Each of these actual, unauthorized disseminations of Plaintiffs' copyrighted works violates Plaintiffs' exclusive distribution right," the document states, where in this case, Atlantic Records is the plaintiff.

It is not clear whether personal use of the MP3 converted files goes under this claim, as the document states that the files were in a shared folder, one which defendant Jeffrey Howell used for himself and his wife.
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