Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins

tanman writes "After reading an article in the Miami Herald that said "[President] Bush's twin daughters gave him a CD they had made for him to listen to while exercising," a Florida lawyer calculated statutory damages of $1.8 million and has sent a letter to the RIAA asking that they 'display the same vigor in prosecuting this matter and protecting the rights of your rights-holders that it has displayed in enforcing those rights against other alleged violators.' From the letter: 'This is a serious violation of copyright. As you know, whichever of your member organizations that are right[s]-holders for the copied musical works may be entitled to statutory damages of $150,000.00 per musical work copied.'" Update: 06/22 18:55 GMT by KD : The lawyer in question has retracted his analysis and now says no laws were broken, probably.

Comments

Re:Excellent

[turgid]

You call that "Conservative?"

I call it neutral. It can't be Conservative, there's no malice in it. Where is the denegration of others for being unlike you?

Re:Careful Now

[Sj0]

Not hypocritical at all. Everybody knows Bush is a career criminal who just changes laws he's breaking(Illegal Wiretapping: Not illegal if I say "not it"!), so if he gets hit hard by the RIAA, the music industry will be lucky if they get 1800s style copyright after he's done with them.