ABA Judges Get an Earful About RIAA Litigations

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "I was afforded the opportunity to write for a slightly different audience — the judges who belong to the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association. I was invited by the The Judges Journal, their quarterly publication, to do a piece on the RIAA litigations for the ABA's Summer 2008 'Equal Access to Justice' issue. What I came up with was 'Large Recording Companies vs. The Defenseless: Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations,' in which I describe the unfairness of these cases and make 15 suggestions as to how the courts could level the playing field. I'm hoping the judges mod my article '+5 Insightful,' but I'd settle for '+3 Informative.' Here is the actual article (PDF). (If anyone out there can send me a decent HTML version of it, I'll run that one up the flagpole as well.)" Wired is helping to spread the word on Ray's article.

Comments

Re:Well done

[DNS-and-BIND]

Yeah, it's called "being a good attorney". Being one yourself, you can certainly identify. The attorney's job is to present the client's arguments in the best possible light, and if he has to bend the law or ethics to do it, then that's his job. Breaking the law is OK too, as long as you don't get caught...Mike Nifong would have gotten away with it if he wasn't so outrageous. You know, I actually respect RIAA attorneys for being so balls-out for their client. We really need to hire some of them and get them on our side, they'd do quite well.

Re:All that needs to be said

[KGIII]

Fame == fortune in most cases so if not immediately and if not directly then surely he does benefit and it is likely that that benefit is financial. Not that there's anything wrong with it really but at least I hope he profits in some way from this. I know that if I were to be sued by RIAA I'd want to consider him as my liar.