final-pretrial
RIAA v Joel trial starts July 27
p2pnet news view | RIAA:- The final pretrial conference was conducted today in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum , and it was determined that the trial will commence Monday, July 27th, as planned. Additionally, Matthew Oppenheim was admitted pro haec vice, defendant requested reconsideration of the in limine motion to exclude the testimony of an ethnomusicologist, the Court took the motion under advisement, Atlantic Recordings was given permission to withdraw its claim, and the plaintiffs’ partial summary judgment motion seeking dismissal of the fair use defense was taken under advisement.
Continue reading »Australia’s $164,000 web site !
You know how we’ve been saying (repeatedly, over and over, and ad nauseum) how local taxpayers foot the bill for entertainment cartel use of national (and local) police forces as korporate kopyright kops? It goes further than that in Oz. “Taxpayers have spent 71c for every hit on Kevin Rudd’s stimulus website, new data released by the government shows,” says Australian IT , going on: “The Rudd government spent $164,000 to set up the website, which provides details of the rollout of spending under the government’s $42 billion stimulus package, announced in February.
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