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RIAA Appeals Award of Attorneys' Fees
Fishing Expedition writes in with a story in Ars reporting that the RIAA has decided to appeal a judge's decision to award attorneys' fees to defendant Debbie Foster in Capitol Records v. Foster. If the award stands, the RIAA could find itself in trouble in numerous other cases, and they know it. Their real fear, more than the attorneys' fees, is the judge's finding that the RIAA's arguments for contributory and vicarious infringement claims in cases like this one are not viable.
Their real fear, more than the attorneys' fees, is the judge's finding that the RIAA's arguments for contributory and vicarious infringement claims in cases like this one are not viable.
Well, when you put it like that I really hope the judge sees the light and overturns the previous ruling...
This guy's the limit!
I'm glad to see that the RIAA/MPAA's War on Customers is failing, and IANAL, but that article summary is terrible. Can you possibly make it any more confusing?
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- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
all they want to do is ruin people's lives! is that so wrong?
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What, you mean try to make money by selling CDs? But that would involve having artists put out CDs that don't suck. To do that you need talented artists. And you have to search for them, audition them, etc. That just takes too much time and effort.
Besides, war-dialing for people to sue seems like it would be much more fun.
-- I might be stupid, but you have to be good at something.
June 1: Judge rules against RIAA in legal fee case June 2: Judge sued for illegal filesharing by RIAA
public void RIAA_court_case(Plaintiff pliantiff, Defendant defendant) {
if (judge.decision().winner == defendant && case.frivolous)
{
defendant.bankbalance += plaintiff.getmoney(defendant.fees);
) else {
defendant.bankbalance -= defendant.fees;
plaintiff.bankbalance -= plaintiff.fees;
}
}
i love pseudocode
I got nothin'
...as determined by whom? Previously, the RIAA did things like sue for $150K per song. Now assuming each song is 10 minutes long (and we know that won't be true, but it works for the math), there would be 6 such songs in one hour; or $150K x 6 = $900K per hour. So, if her defending team worked, say, 100 hours on the suit (not unheard of), then the RIAA would be forced to pay legal fees of $900K x 100 = $90,000,000.00
What's reasonable for the goose must be reasonable for the gander, right?
PCC (PseudoCode Compiler) output--
Compiler error: plaintiff does not exist in this context.
Did you mean pliantiff?
Compilers: the ultimate dictionary flamers.
Raoul Mitgong: Unhelpful.
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No court would award fees of $5,000 per hour in a copyright case, even if the winning party actually paid that much. The law provides for a "reasonable" attorney fee, and that isn't reasonable.
Shut the hell up. As a copyright lawyer, I think that fee is entirely reasonable. Perhaps even too reasonable.
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I'd like to hear what a real lawyer thinks.
Okay, if that's what you want. Right now I'm thinking that it's a pain in the ass to graduate to the 'hard' level on Guitar Hero II. I'm having trouble getting used to moving my hand up and down the neck of the controller so that I can use the orange fret.
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.