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Tag Archives: RIAA
File-Sharing Litigation Groundhog Day
RIAA file-sharing punching bag Jammie Thomas-Rasset lost for the third time, a Minnesota jury finding her liable on Wednesday for copyright infringement and ordering that she pay damages of $1.5 million. A 2007 jury trial resulted in a $222,000 RIAA … Continue reading
LimeWire Shut Down
“If file-sharing copyrighted songs is against the law, why is LimeWire still operating?” Students have asked this question countless times, and countless times I’ve answered it. There are no copyright police; copyright holders must pursue civil lawsuits to remedy claims … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright infringement, file sharing, Limewire, napster, RIAA
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RIAA Damages Reduced
Jammie Thomas-Rassert of Minnesota was the first defendant in an RIAA music-piracy lawsuit to go to trial. She lost big, appealed, the trial judge decided he mis-instructed the jury on the law and ordered a new trial, she lost again, … Continue reading
Tenenbaum Postscript
From Ars Technica: Massachusetts federal district court judge Nancy Gertner, who presided in the RIAA file-sharing trial of Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum, this week entered default judgments in some file-sharing cases. Judge Gertner awarded the RIAA statutory damages … Continue reading
More on the Tenenbaum Judgment
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 … Continue reading
More on Tenenbaum
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
$675k
The federal court jury deliberated for three hours last Friday before deciding that BU graduate student Joel Tenenbaum owes $675,000 in damages, or $22,500 for each of 30 songs he admitted to downloading. The evidence showed an unrepentant Tenenbaum continued … Continue reading