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EFF Jumps in Against RIAA for Copyright Misuse
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Arguing that the RIAA and big record labels may be misusing their copyrights, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has jumped in on the defendant's side in a White Plains, New York, court conflict. The case is Lava v. Amurao, and the EFF will be defending Mr. Amurao's right to counterclaim for copyright misuse. EFF argued that the RIAA, by deliberately bringing meritless cases against innocent people based on theories of 'secondary liability', are abusing their copyrights. In its amicus brief, EFF also decried (just as when it joined the ACLU, Public Citizen, and others on the side of Debbie Foster in Capitol v. Foster) the RIAA's 'driftnet' litigation strategy. They argue that the declaratory judgment remedy must also be made available to defendants, in view of the RIAA's habit of dropping the meritless cases it started but can't finish."
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This is very interesting in light of the recent coverage on this matter. However you might find an interesting counterpoint here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzqLg0dHrQ
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despite he is dead.
because lots of funds were spent a prior to 1990s for preparing u.s. military for occasions that would necessitate an operation in the desert, mainly due to instable dictators in the region like saddam, the u.s. government was not able to spare enough resources from budget for protecting "intellectual properties" of u.s. citizens (actually only riaa members).
henceforth this resource shortage have led to the current environment in which members are forced to protect their own "intellectual property" rights with a finest of organizations, RIAA, that they founded from their own pockets, which increases the collateral damages to the participating members.
this is a state of affairs that is unacceptable. rights of the participating members of RIAA should be delivered, justice be done, reparations should be made.
henceforth RIAA should file suits against Saddam, and consequently current iraqi government, and iraqi people, and demand that a share from the proceedings of the oil pumped out of the region should be levied in taxes in order to compensate infringement of RIAA members' "intellectual property" rights.
if you have read so far, and yet you do not know RIAA, or you are new to slashdot, keep in mind that RIAA can successfully sue dead people.
next in to-sue list : aliens
in the works : lawsuits against whatever was there before the big bang that created the universe, on grounds that it/they/us/whatever have also created the concept of photons, electromagnetism, and thought, which are all utilized in excess by parties that infringe upon RIAA members' "intellectual property" rights.
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