Admired in Class, a Scholar Falters in Court covers the response to Charlie Nesson’s handling of the Tenenbaum file-sharing trial. A sample: It was a stinging defeat for Professor Nesson, and to many in the legal community, it seemed to be a moment when an eccentric scholar’s devotion to a soaring vision blinded him to [...]
Here’s a link to the BU Today article about last week’s $675k judgment in the RIAA file-sharing case. Joel Tenenbaum’s Big Day in Court | BU Today Sphere: Related Content Related posts RIAA Appeals File-Sharing Decision (1) Pirate Bay on Trial (0) Other Shoe Drops on RIAA (0) More on the Tenenbaum Judgment (0) Tenenbaum [...]
Minnesota music file-sharing defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset yesterday completed her new copyright infringement trial. Unfortunately the result was about eight times worse than October 2007′s trial, in which a jury found her liable and awarded the RIAA damages of about $240k. This time the jury found her liable for infringing 24 song copyrights and awarded the [...]
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Torrent clearing-house Pirate Bay is on trial in Sweden for copyright theft. If convicted its owners could be imprisoned for up to two years and fined $145k. The plaintiffs, producers of movies, music, and video games, are also seeking over 10 million Euros in damages. Pirate Bay’s defense is that it does not host any [...]
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The music industry generated some news while was hobbling. The RIAA announced that it is dropping its campaign of mass lawsuits. The RIAA has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against over 35,000 people in the past five years for allegedly pirating copyrighted songs, a fact most college students know well. Most suits were settled for between [...]
Today’s flurry of posts is the product of two weeks of focus elsewhere: grading hundreds of papers, cooking for Thanksgiving, spending time with friends and family. Now it is back to clearing out the inbox. . . Internet Attacks Are Growing More Potent and Complex presages the type of cyber 9/11 that Jonathan Zittrain has [...]
The RIAA has appealed Judge Michael Davis’s decision to toss out the $224 jury verdict in its copyright infringement case against Jammie Thomas. Last month the judge vacated the verdict after deciding he erred when instructing the jury that Thomas could be liable merely for making a copyrighted song available for sharing online, without regard [...]