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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. In December of 2008, the RIAA announced it would finally end the legal assault against consumers that began back in 2003 and has resulted in over 35,000 lawsuits. This past summer, in only the second lawsuit of its kind to go to trial, Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum was ordered to pay four record labels a total of $675,000 in damages for illegally downloading 30 songs and sharing them online.
JetLawBlog
- Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday Morning JetLawg
While some appeals courts have been reducing RIAA verdicts, recent 5th Circuit decision ups award against former high school cheerleader.
PEDs RIAA Ric Flair Royals steroids tax Tiger Woods Tony Kornheiser Whitney Harpe In the news . . .
Costs associated with Tiger press conference will go to him, not taxpayers.
JetLawBlog
- Sunday, February 28, 2010
Class action vs. record labels over peer-to-peer suits hanging by a thread
She sued the labels (plus the RIAA and MediaSentry) right back, alleging a massive conspiracy to abuse the federal courts by suing innocent individuals with no probable cause. Last summer, when Kiwi Camara and Joe Sibley took over the defense of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, they vowed not only to get her off the hook, but to launch a counter-attack to " get the $100 million that [the labels] stole " in the course of their litigation campaign against individual peer-to-peer users. They, along with Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, would do that, Camara told Ars Technica , by
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Saturday, January 30, 2010
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RIAA hires Pariser as new in-house litigation chief
The RIAA has a new top in-house litigator. The major record labels' trade association today announced that it hired Jennifer Pariser as Senior Vice President of Litigation and Legal Affairs, replacing Ken Doroshow , who left last fall to become General Counsel of the Entertainment Software Association. Pariser joins the RIAA from Sony BMG, where she served as Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Litigation and Anti-Piracy; before that she was an associate at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler and Debevoise & Plimpton and clerked for the
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Monday, February 2, 2009
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RIAA moves into fancy new Pennsylvania Ave. digs
The first card says: Since 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed over 35,000 lawsuits for copyright infringement. First, the RIAA doesn't file the lawsuits against individuals; the record labels file the lawsuits, with the RIAA in a coordinating role. At least according to a preview of a new documentary on the Joel Tenenbaum case by Bricks and Mortar Media : On a more serious note, the title cards of the documentary contain several errors. Second, the "35,000" figure is way off.
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Monday, October 26, 2009
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Tenenbaum re-writes history: RIAA now not such 'rotten bastards'; 'lies' no longer a 'myth'
In a Q & A posted August 2, the Sunday after last Friday's verdict, Joel Tenenbaum had this to say about his victorious opponents: Q: The RIAA are a bunch of rotten bastards. A: I know. Today, where that couplet once appeared, we now have this : Also on August 2, Tenenbaum published a post purporting to correct various "myths" in the media coverage of his case. Among the
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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New Anti-Piracy Approach May Strike Out with Lawmakers and ISPs
Although lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against Internet users suspected of illegal file-sharing have gained widespread publicity in recent years, people seeking to share and download free music online may soon face a new type of obstacle.
Lately, however, the RIAA has begun to turn its enforcement focus away from such litigation and toward private action through Internet service providers (ISPs).
The Obama administration recently expressed its intention to continue the Bush-era policy of supporting fines of up to $150,000 per violation of the Copyright Act, despite the argument that these large fines are excessive.
JetLawBlog
- Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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Why the RIAA (and all trade associations) should NOT be focusing on 'business models'
The gloating over recent layoffs at the RIAA presents a good opportunity to knock down some of the common myths about what trade associations like the RIAA and MPAA are and are not -- and what they are allowed to do. Trade associations exist in virtually every significant industry in the US, from valve manufacturers , to pork producers , to mushroom growers , to travel agents , to refrigerated warehousers , to sign-makers , to frozen food freezers, to . . . So RIAA opponents can fulminate all they want that the labels' lawsuits
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Saturday, February 28, 2009
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RIAA GC: Nesson seeks to 'gut the copyright laws,' stage 'three-ring circus,' foment 'revolution'
Ars Technica , which recently gave space to Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson to take on the record labels' litigation campaign against individual peer-to-peer users, has now done the same for RIAA general counsel Steven Marks . Marks uses most of his piece to describe the general state of the music industry and its transition to Web-based distribution, but does also directly address Nesson's defense of accused infringer Joel Tenenbaum : [T]hat’s exactly what the Tenenbaum case is: a crusade waged by a Harvard professor to gut the copyright laws that protect creators and his attempt to transform a courtroom into a "three-ring circus."
Copyrights & Campaigns
- Sunday, May 31, 2009
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The RIAA’s Never-Ending Battle Over File Sharing
On Friday, January 22, Judge Michael Davis reduced the jury award by ninety-seven percent in a case brought by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) against Minnesota mother Jammie Thomas-Rasset for copyright infringement of twenty-four songs obtained through illegal file sharing, calling the original fine “ monstrous and shocking .” million verdict in favor of the RIAA, a fine of $80,000 per song. 8221; This case was the first file sharing case to make it past the settlement stages and into court, and has now been tried to a jury twice. The jury verdict
JetLawBlog
- Thursday, January 28, 2010
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RIAA to Cease Filing Mass Copyright Infringement Lawsuits, But Will Continue Monitoring Private Online Music File Transfers
It seems that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has finally learned the lesson that rampant litigation has a tendency to rack up more costs than are justified by the potential award of damages. In the RIAA’s five-year-long crusade against illegal uploaders of copyrighted music on the Internet, it has sued approximately 35,000 people in a process that has been derided by critics as ineffective and an invasion of privacy . As discussed in a previous post , last month the RIAA announced that it will cease filing mass copyright infringement lawsuits .
JetLawBlog
- Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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New Front Opened Against RIAA
Take the RIAA copyright war on unlawful file sharing. The RIAA claims that because copyright provides a clear mandate against its defendants its got the white hat. However, Professor Charles Nesson, a Harvard law professor, has taken up the fight on behalf of the RIAA defendants by making a wholly procedural argument. He claims that the The ebbs and flows of any legal policy battle have little to do with the obvious moral colors of it all. Often, it seems the blacks and whites of rights and wrongs are not reduced to grays but blotted off the canvas altogether.
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Why The RIAA Has Changed Its Strategy
Tracy Mitrano explains why she thinks the RIAA has dropped all those piracy lawsuits against college students. It's not just because the association is nic
Media Law Prof Blog
- Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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