in atlantic recording v. raleigh an riaa case pending in st. louis missouri the defendant has asserted detailed counterclaims against the riaa for federal rico violations fraud violation of the computer fraud and abuse act prima facie tort trespass and conspiracy. the claims focus on the riaas dri ftnetrsqu o tactic of suing innocent people and of demanding extor...... [Show More]
this is placeholder text for your new blog entry. replace it with your own. you may recall that when the riaa decided to run away with its tail between its legs in the long running brooklyn case against a home health aide who has never used a computer umg v. lindor it decided to take some parting shots at the defendant and newyorkcou ntrylawyer asking for discovery sanct...... [Show More]
hmmm really Post Source: msl1.mit.edu Posted: Oct 29 2008 23:58:34
judge lectures riaa on their ethics or lack thereof
in what may be news to riaa lawyers a federal judge has admonished the lawyers that they have ethical obligations. according to the transcript pdf of a motion hearing in a huge consolidated riaa case provided to ray beckerman of recording industry v. the people judge nancy gertner said
counsel representing the record compa...... [Show More]
go ahead and read this court transcript . its a 35page pdf of the londonsire records. does 14 copyright infringement case. its the same song and dance youre all familiar with riaa catches someone downloading a song which entitles it to thousands upon thousands of dollars in remuneration. only this time the presiding judge nancy gertner of the u.s. district court for ...... [Show More]
the boston judge who has consolidated all of the riaas massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been presiding for the past 5 years delivered something of a rebuke to the riaas lawyers we have learned. at a conference this past june the transcript of which pdf has just been released judge nancy gertner said to them that they have an et...... [Show More]
de riaa wil voorkomen dat de veroordeelde filesharer jammie thomas een nieuw proces krijgt en heeft daarom een verzoek ingediend om bezwaar te mogen aantekenen tegen het besluit van rechter michael davis hiertoe....... [Show More]
die recording industry association of america riaa versucht den new yorker kollegen ray beckerman in die haftung zu nehmen der mandanten erfolgreich gegen filesharin gvorw25 2rfe verteidigt hat. in einem verfahren fordern die riaaanwlte nun geldbuen gegen beckerman und seine mandantin marie lindor. der anwalt habe das verfahren in lstiger weise in die lnge g...... [Show More]
die recording industry association of america riaa versucht den new yorker kollegen ray beckerman in die haftung zu nehmen der mandanten erfolgreich gegen filesharin gvorwarf e verteidigt hat. in einem verfahren fordern die riaaanwalte nun geldbuaen gegen beckerman und seine mandantin marie lindor. der anwalt habe das verfahren in lastiger weise in die lange gezogen. anstoa nimm...... [Show More]
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in arista v. does 117 the riaas case targeting students at the university of oregon the oregon attorney generals motion to quash the riaas subpoena pending for about a year has reached a perplexing conclusion. the court agreed with the university that the subpoena as worded imposed an undue burden on the university by requiring it to produ...... [Show More]
ms thomas a single mother of twoaisawas the first person successfully prosecuted to a substantive trial by the riaa in the usa for copyright infringement by p2p file sha ring8221 using kazaa she downloaded and sha red 24 copies of protected sound recordings.
the jury awarded riaa statutory damages of us220000 by the jury or 9250 per song file downloaded...... [Show More]
the riaas campaign against filesharers follows a standard procedure find a computer offering files for download get a court to force the isp or organization that provided the computers ip address to reveal the computers owner and then sue the owner. the group has contracted with mediasentry to do the work of identifying the infringing computers but that companys me...... [Show More]
in a california copyright infringement case io group v. veoh networks the court has granted the defendants motion for summary judgment on the basis of the digital millennium copyright act 822 0dmca82 21 holding that the defendants videosharing web site complied with the dmca and was entitled to the protection of the statutes safe harbor provi...... [Show More]
it has been something of a david and goliath battle but the first skirmishes in the war on file sharing are over. while the riaa jubilantly claimed success last year it is another case that has has now silenced the riaa as it avoids drawing attention to the case it never had.
if you read a mainstream media news report about file sharing or talk to a reporter about illicit fileshari...... [Show More]
copyright notes Post Source: dancingsamurai.ca Posted: Aug 06 2008 23:06:27
its been a little while since i wrote a post about copyright the only reason for that is that its been a little while since i wrote a post about anything hehe. so a few links comments.
first off probably the most damning point about the whole copyright debate one that ive been saying for years is that there is no legal product that approac...... [Show More]
ray beckerman as you may already know is a lawyer in new york who not only has defended numerous people against riaa lawsuits but also runs the recording industry vs. the people blog where he chronicles whats going on in these cases. while i believe he sometimes pushes the envelope too far in his claims about what the riaa is doing theres no denying that hes been a t...... [Show More]
since the riaa began bringing lawsuits against p2p file sharers on behalf of record labels there has been little incentive for lawyers to get involved. and its hard to blame them. after all the riaa lawsuits are tailored to look completely legitimate while actually revealing nothing of their investigations. if the defense asks to examine the evidence they claim its protected as a p...... [Show More]
links for 20080730 Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Jul 30 2008 23:33:55
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tags toread riaa legal internet law copyright ...... [Show More]
for many people justice is something that is bought and sold in the us especially where filesharing is concerned. few lawyers are willing to represent and fewer still understand the technologies involved in cases. ray beckerman is one of the few that seem to and he now has an article in the current edition of the judges journal about the riaa lawsuits.
beckermans article entitled...... [Show More]
in tiffany v. ebay decided today the southern district of new york gives helpful bounds to secondary liability for trademark infringement saying ebay is not liable for its use of the term tif fany8221 nor for its sellers sales of counterfeit goods. judge sullivans careful analysis leaves the path clear for online marketplaces to flourish putting enforcement burdens w...... [Show More]
apropos the viacomgoogle lawsuit ....... [Show More]
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