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‘Settlement’ master named: RIAA v Thomas
This has to be a first. A special ’settlement master’ has been named in Capitol v Thomas, says Ray Beckerman on Recording Industry vs The People . Judge Michael Davis, who’s been presiding ever since Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music and their RIAA were told they’d get almost two million dollars from Jammie Thomas-Rassett (seen here with her family), “has appointed a Special Master to promote meaningful settlement discussions”, says Beckerman.
Continue reading »Damages slashed for US freetard
Happy day for Jammie blighter leaves recording industry in quandary Infamous music pilferer Jammie Thomas-Rasset has had a $2m damages bill for copying 24 songs slashed by a US judge.…
Continue reading »RIAA Victim Files for New Trial, Damages Excessive
It would seem statutory damages are a bittersweet pill for the record industry. On one hand they provide a handy battering ram for intimidating litigation targets into settling out of court, which is good for them. On the other, they can be used to turn a victory into a crushing defeat, which could be very bad.
Continue reading »$675,000 RIAA File Sharing Verdict is ‘Unreasonable’
The nation’s second file sharing defendant to challenge the Recording Industry Association of America at trial is asking the court for a retrial, or to reduce the $675,000 verdict the jury levied for infringing 30 songs. Among other claims, lawyers for defendant Joel Tenenbaum asserted Monday this summer’s verdict was unconstitutionally excessive – an argument, in essence, that a penalty of $22,500 a song is simply too big, shocks the conscience and is “obviously unreasonable.” But that argument is a long-shot at best. A similar one is pending in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset litigation — the nation’s first file sharing case where a Minnesota jury dinged her $1.92 million for 24 songs this summer.
Continue reading »Tenenbaum circus enters big top next week; what to expect
The second full trial of a US peer-to-peer file swapper begins next week. Sublimeguy14@KaZaA (aka Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston College grad student) will make his way through the marble corridors of Boston’s federal courthouse next Monday to face a set of RIAA lawyers who are fresh from a $1.92 million victory in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case and eager to go 2-0 in such prosecutions. But Tenenbaum has a secret weapon—Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson, who will argue that the 816 songs in Tenenbaum’s KaZaA share folder back in 2004 were simply a “fair use” of the recording industry’s protected work.
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