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17 Articles match "Internet","Kazaa","RIAA"

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The Devil Listens to Nirvana.
Two days after Charles Nesson pleaded his case in Boston and halfway across the country, a federal appeals court ordered a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) $27,750—$750 per track—for downloading and sharing 37 songs while in high school. Judge Nancy Gertner, of the U.S. 8211; Jaci Thomson.
JetLawBlog - Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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Class action vs. record labels over peer-to-peer suits hanging by a thread
They began only with an IP address and the KaZaA user ID "gotenkito," detected by investigators at MediaSentry, who spied this user "sharing" 1,288 song files. The labels then sued the "Doe" assigned to that IP address, and issued a subpoena to Verizon, the ISP that provided the Internet service to that subscriber.
Copyrights & Campaigns - Saturday, January 30, 2010
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Judge Refuses to Issue Monetary Sanctions in Music Piracy Case
On his blog, Beckerman makes no qualms of expressing his disapproval of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) , and highlighting its “attempt to monopolize digital music and redefine copyright law.&# While Beckerman has been very outspoken against the RIAA, the RIAA recently took action against him directly.
JetLawBlog - Friday, October 16, 2009
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  • Judge Refuses to Issue Monetary Sanctions in Music Piracy Case
    On his blog, Beckerman makes no qualms of expressing his disapproval of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) , and highlighting its “attempt to monopolize digital music and redefine copyright law.&# While Beckerman has been very outspoken against the RIAA, the RIAA recently took action against him directly.
    JetLawBlog - Friday, October 16, 2009
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  • Tenenbaum Case Opens in Massachusetts
    In 1997, Charles Nesson and Jonathan Zittrain founded the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. research center focusing on legal study of the Internet, notable fellows have included Jimbo Wales, Larry Lessig, John Perry Barlow, and Yochai Benkler. Whether that has any relevance whatsoever to the law is another question entirely.
    JetLawBlog - Friday, July 31, 2009
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  • The Devil Listens to Nirvana.
    Two days after Charles Nesson pleaded his case in Boston and halfway across the country, a federal appeals court ordered a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) $27,750—$750 per track—for downloading and sharing 37 songs while in high school. Judge Nancy Gertner, of the U.S. 8211; Jaci Thomson.
    JetLawBlog - Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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  • Court Orders Woman to Pay $1.92 Million to Record Companies for Illegal Downloads
    Tags: JETL copyright courts entertainment financial government intellectual property internet lawsuits legislation music technology RIAA file sharing download Copyright Act Thomas-Rasset Kazaa jury
    JetLawBlog - Friday, June 26, 2009
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  • Huge win for record labels in Jammie Thomas-Rasset case as jury awards $1.92 million; big question: too huge?
    million -- $80,000 per work -- to the major record labels, finding that Brainerd mother of four Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully infringed 24 of their copyrights by downloading and "sharing" them via the peer-to-peer service Kazaa. A jury of 12 ordinary Minnesotans with no connection to the entertainment industry today awarded a whopping $1.92
    Copyrights & Campaigns - Thursday, June 18, 2009
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  • The Joel Tenenbaum case: Frequently Asked Questions
    Five major record labels have sued a Boston University graduate student named Joel Tenenbaum in federal court in Boston, alleging that he used the KaZaA peer-to-peer network to infringe copyrights in 30 sound recordings that they own. What about the RIAA? The RIAA has not sued Tenenbaum, and it is not a party to the case.
    Copyrights & Campaigns - Sunday, July 26, 2009
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  • Fisking Charlie Nesson: What about Joel?
    My client is Joel Tenenbaum, a 25-year old physics graduate student at Boston University, and he's being sued by the music companies for sharing seven songs back in 2003 using KaZaA, a file-sharing network comprised of millions of his peers doing likewise. believe [the RIAA]. don't believe the RIAA is "abus[ing] our legal process."
    Copyrights & Campaigns - Monday, May 25, 2009
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  • The Jammie Thomas-Rasset verdict: Why?
    Their testimony (which also established that the songs in the "tereastarr" Kazaa shared folder were downloaded, as opposed to being ripped from legitimately bought CDs), was essentially unchallenged by the defense. Here goes: my top three reasons why the plaintiffs won -- and won big (maybe too big). Douglas Jacobson. trial. The People.
    Copyrights & Campaigns - Monday, June 22, 2009
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  • Harvard professor getting on Yale judge's nerves in piracy case
    Recently, she's had the pleasure of facing down Harvard law professor Charles Nesson as he leads a class project defending grad student Joel Tenenbaum, accused of downloading and making songs available over the peer-to-peer file sharing system Kazaa. By Eriq Gardner.
    THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog - Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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  • Tenenbaum files motions on witness fees, web use in courtroom, voir dire by attorneys
    Tenenbaum indicates that he intends to call as trial witnesses RIAA President Cary Sherman and EVP of Government and Industry Affairs Mitch Glazier to testify on fair use and damages, and that he would like the court to waive the witness fees he would normally owe under FRCP 45 and 28 USC § 1821. 614(a). See FRCP 45(b)(2). See FRCP 32(a)(4).
    Copyrights & Campaigns - Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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