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Justices Block Same-Sex Marriage Trial on YouTube
The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a delayed YouTube broadcast of a federal civil trial in San Francisco concerning the legality of same-sex marriage. The decision came after gay marriage foes told the court they would be harassed and intimidated if their testimony was disseminated on such a grand scale. The high court’s decision, which it is set to review again Wednesday, for the moment suspends a courthouse experiment that for the first time would have uploaded federal courtroom testimony to YouTube.
Continue reading »RIAA Seeks Web Removal of ‘Illegal’ Court Recordings
The Recording Industry Association of America on Monday demanded a federal judge order Harvard University’s Charles Nesson to remove from the internet “unauthorized and illegal recordings” of pretrial hearings and depositions in a file-sharing lawsuit headed to trial. “Enough is enough. For the past five months, this court has repeatedly warned defense counsel regarding his insistence on engaging unauthorized and illegal recordings of counsel and proceedings in this case,” RIAA attorney Daniel Cloherty wrote (.pdf) U.S.
Continue reading »Court Bars RIAA Trial Webcast
A federal appeals court on Thursday barred the webcasting of a live courtroom proceeding of a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing trial. The 1st U.S.
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