University of San Francisco Law Clinic Joins Fight Against RIAA

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's litigation campaign has met resistance from the academic community before, but now it's been taken to a whole new level: the defense of RIAA victims who are not part of the college community. First the University of Oregon lashed out on behalf of its students, then it was the University of Maine's Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic on behalf of its undergrads. Now, the University of San Francisco School of Law has taken the fight a giant step further. Its Intellectual Property Law Clinic's attorneys-in-training, working under the supervision of law professors, are going to bat against the RIAA by helping outside lawyers to defend their clients, pro bono. They reached out 3000 miles to get involved in Elektra v. Torres and Maverick v. Chowdhury, two cases going on in Brooklyn, NY, against non-college defendants. Two of the law students in the USF's legal program assisted in the research and preparation of briefs in these cases, opposing the RIAA's motion to dismiss the defendants' counterclaims. Thousands of honor students throughout United States law schools, most of them digital natives who actually understand the legal fallacies and technological missteps the RIAA is taking, and who can't wait to expose them, make a pretty good resource for the poor and middle class people trying to defend these cases."

Comments

Get your own blog!

[kaos07]

Come on, NewYorkCountryLawyer, Slashdot isn't your personal outlet! Get your own blog.

Maybe something like http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/?

Re:Get your own blog!

[Deadfyre_Deadsoul]

I imagine the RIAA is having seizures from this news.

Cautionary Note

[LiquidCoooled]

This is a cautionary note based upon experience i have seen in the movies:

When you find a new super weapon and decide to use it to help the people, it almost always backfires.

We are cheering the fact that MORE lawyers are being created.
What will happen when they finish with the RIAA?

"It won't stop at anything, and it will never stop hunting you until you are dead."

Re:Cautionary Note

[ettlz]

When you find a new super weapon and decide to use it to help the people, it almost always backfires.

"That's no moon... it's a gigantic grey ball of legal practitioners!"

Re:Cautionary Note

[Dun Malg]

We are cheering the fact that MORE lawyers are being created.
What will happen when they finish with the RIAA? We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lawyers. Then, we've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat. Then comes the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

Answer:

[azrider]

yes.

Re:Answer:

[dwater]

...and that wasn't an 'ex-or' either, in case anyone was wondering.

Law Clinic?

[presarioD]

Hmmmm, a clinic is a place where sick people go in order to get well. A "law clinic" is a place where sick lawyers go in order to get well... nah, it's the place where sick laws get in order to get well... nah, it's the place where new lawyers test their immunity system when exposed to sick lawyers... nah, it's the place where the new breeds of laws test their immunity system against the sick laws... nah, it's the place where sick law interbreeding happens... aghhh, I give up...

Re:A couple of things I would like to say

[sm62704]

1: Fuck the RIAA
2: Fuck the MPAA
and while I am at it,
3: Fuck Microsoft.

Trust me, they're all lousy in bed.

You know you're evil when

[Amasuriel]

even lawyers band together pro bono to help strangers fight you and your cause. I mean seriously. Seriously.