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Sony v Tenenbaum: judgment now in
In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum , the Court has entered judgment,writ In addition to the monetary award fixed by the jury, the Court also granted some, but not all, of the injunctive relief requested by the RIAA. Additionally, the Court set briefing schedules for post-judgment motions, and for motions for fees and sanctions.
Continue reading »‘I got my ass kicked,’ Charles Nesson admits
Harvard law professor Chales Nesson admits “I got my ass kicked” in the Joel Tenenbaum vs the RIAA trial. Like Jammie Thomas-Rassett, Tenenbaum was ordered to pay for allegedly 30 downloading copyrighted songs . His bill?
Continue reading »Verizon as official RIAA copyright cop?
It’s now routine for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA to use taxpayer- and fee-funded schools across America for marketing and copyright extortion, with staff and administrators acting as unpaid help. However, it’s moved its activities up one significant notch. “Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the US, is expected to begin issuing RIAA ‘copyright notices’ to customers accused of illegally downloading songs, “according to sources with knowledge of the agreement,” says CNet News .
Continue reading »RIAA loses against Yahoo’s Launch Media
The RIAA’s claim that personalized internet radio stations were ‘interactive services’ has been flatly rejected ‘as a matter of law’ by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Arista Records v Launch Media. In affirming the jury’s verdict in favor of the defendant, Launch Media — acquired during the lawsuit by Yahoo! — the Court said it did not even need to concern itself with possible errors in the jury instructions, since the trial judge should have directed a verdict for defendant ‘as a matter of law’ on the question of whether the radio stations were ‘interactive services’. At pages 23-42 of its 42-page opinion (PDF), the appeals court carefully analyzed how Launch Media’s personalized internet radio stations worked, and noted that the users could neither obtain and play on demand a particular song, nor obtain the transmission of a particular program, thus rendering the RIAA’s claim of ‘interactivity’ meritless.” Ray Beckerman – Recording Industry vs The People Follow p2pnet on Twitter .
Continue reading »Joel admits uploading, downloading
p2pnet news view | RIAA:- The last time a civil jury had the power to decide what should happen to someone accused by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA of copyright infringement, the victim, Jammie Rasset-Thomas, wound up being charged $80,000 for each of 24 digital music files she was alleged to have shared online, for a total of $1.92 million dollars . Her case is under appeal and meanwhile, today is probably the last day in court for Boston student Joel Tenenbaum, also charged with copyright infringement and,”The Court will make required findings concerning copyright ownership, but leave all remaining issues — infringement (reproduction and distribution), damages and willfulness — for the jury, out of an abundance of caution. The Court does so in part because the statutory damages inquiry obliges the jury to consider some of the same issues as the infringement inquiry, i.e.
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