RIAA-fighting Maine Law Professor Speaks Out

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In an interview with Jon Newton of p2pnet, Prof. Deirdre Smith of the University of Maine says that 'our students are enthusiastic about being directly connected to a case with a national scope and significance'. The UM Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic is the first law school legal clinic in the U.S. to have taken on the RIAA, to have the opportunity for hands-on experience fighting the RIAA's effort to rewrite copyright law. Smith went on to say that the case is probably one of the first intellectual property cases the clinic has ever taken on, and that if it proceeds further, she expects to also 'draw on the considerable expertise in IP among members of our faculty and the Maine Center for Law and Innovation, another program of the Law School'. "

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Re:RIAA/MPAA - is the bad press worth it?

[Anonymous Coward]

The seller has been awarded a market-distorting copyright monopoly. The seller should be free to set a price, but not to prevent sale of properly attributed third-party copies. That way, free market economics could determine the optimal price with out appeal to socialistic "help the poor starving artists" crap. If they don't want something copied, they're free not to release in the first place. Screw 'em.