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RIAA victim Tenenbaum asks for a new trial
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| MUSIC INDUSTRY MAFIAA WHIPPING BOY Joel
| Tenebaum has asked for a new trial and
| remittitur from the same judge who presided
| over the original trial. A 'remittitur' is
| apparently grey-suitspeak for "we can't
| afford the ridiculously dispropportionate
| damage award... can we have another go
| please m'lud, or at least reduce the
| damages?"
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1567374/riaa-victim-tenenbaum-trial
Nothing to celebrate on Public Domain Day 2010 in the US
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| What entered the public domain in the US this
| year? Thanks to several decades of copyright
| term extensions, not a single major work.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/nothing-to-celebrate-on-public-domain-day-2010-in-the-us.ars
The format wars: of lasers and (creative) destruction
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| Remember the format wars? Ars looks back at
| the heated battles between VHS and Betamax as
| well as HD DVD and Blu-ray, wondering if, now
| that the dust has settled, the end of the
| format wars is nigh.
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http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/guides/2010/01/is-the-end-of-the-format-wars-upon-us.ars
Recent:
Constitutionality of RIAA Damages Challenged
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| In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v.
| Tenenbaum, defendant has filed a motion
| for new trial, attacking, among other
| things, the constitutionality of the
| jury's $675,000 award as being violative
| of due process.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/04/195208/Constitutionality-of-RIAA-Damages-Challenged
RIAA lied to the US Congress
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| In April the RIAA told US lawmakers that it was not going to chase individual
| file-sharers any more and was going to stop dragging grannies, homeless
| people and kids into court using dodgy evidence obtained by methods that
| seemed to break some state laws.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137039/riaa-lied-us-congress
RIAA: "we have no choice" but to file more named lawsuits
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| The RIAA said it would file no more "new" lawsuits against individual
| file-swappers, but it filed more such lawsuits in April. How to explain the
| apparent contradiction? By defining "new" in a particular way.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/riaa-we-have-no-choice-but-to-file-more-named-lawsuits.ars
The RIAA vs. 19 Year Old Cancer Patient
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| Among the RIAA's latest targets in its campaign to sue its customer base into
| submission is a 19-year-old cancer patient. Ciaro Sauro was ruled a music
| pirate after failing to defend herself in court against charges from the RIAA
| that she was sharing music files online. Ms. Sauro has said she couldn't
| defend herself as she is hospitalized once a week, and vehemently denies the
| allegations that she is a pirate.
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/entertainment/2009/3/26/the_riaa_vs_19_year_old.htm
RIAA Sued For Racketeering Yet Again
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| A few people have filed lawsuits against the RIAA for racketeering in the
| past, though these charges have always been dismissed. In one such case,
| where the filed charges were dismissed over the summer, new claims were filed
| again charging the RIAA with racketeering for extortion, mail fraud and wire
| fraud in its ongoing efforts involving weakly supported threats against
| alleged file sharers demanding money to avoid being sued.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081121/1203512916.shtml
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