RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant's Children

Exchange writes "In Michigan, in Warner Bros. v. Scantlebury, after learning that the defendant had passed away, the RIAA made a motion to stay the case for 60 days in order to allow the family time to "grieve", after which time they want to start taking depositions of the late Mr. Scantlebury's children. Recording Industry vs The People have more details"

Comments

Re:Where's the outrage?

[joshier]

They cannot speak up because they are busy sucking the RIAA's cocks.

Re:Why?

[Flibz]

Are you a system tester?

Obligations to The People.

[mikelieman]

When any Artificial Legal Entity BEGS permission from The People to exist, ( By submitting, say Articles of Organization to the Office of the Secretary of State ) they AGREE to abide by The Peoples Regulations as a condition of issuance of Corporate Existance.

PREDICATED UPON The Peoples PERMISSION for a Corporation to EXIST is that it operates in The Public Interest, otherwise, what possible reason could exist for The People extending priviledges to Artificial Legal Entities?

I say the RIAA has violated it's DUTY and RESPONSIBILITIES to The People, shown it cannot be trusted, and should have it's Corporate Existance Ended by the courts.

Following orders

[NewYorkCountryLawyer]

Jah-Wren Ryel said: "Ask any lawyer - they will tell you that it is not their place to judge their client, only to see that they get the maximum legal representation that they are entitled to under the law."

Well I'm a lawyer, ask me.

I'll tell you that a good lawyer (a) judges all the time, (b) tells his client when it is in the wrong, and (c) if the client won't change his course of action, refuses to go along with it.

A lawyer who isn't willing to stand up to his client, and resign the representation if the client is in the wrong, isn't a lawyer at all in my opinion, just someone pretending to be a lawyer.

From my experience with the RIAA cases, I haven't yet seen a real lawyer among them.

I don't know how they sleep at night.

(By the way, take note that in the Scantlebury case Mr. Krichbaum's partner Jonathan Rowe did resign the representation in May; there might be an interesting story there, although we'll of course never find out what it was.)

Re:What, are their lawyers salaried?

[NewYorkCountryLawyer]

True, it is headed and run by lawyers, I am ashamed to say, being a lawyer myself. But I don't think of them as real lawyers, just as people pretending to be lawyers because they're indifferent to the ethical principles they swore to uphold.

No evidence

[NewYorkCountryLawyer]

There was no evidence of stealing whatsoever. Why are you fictionalizing on behalf of the RIAA?

Re:what do they want?

[adewolf]

What makes you think that the RIAA pays the artists anything or fairly. To me the RIAA are bottom feeder scum who leech off the artists. They add no value.