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Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA

Posted by timothy on from the ensemble-cast dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's case in Boston against a 24-year-old grad student, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, in which Prof. Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, along with members of his CyberLaw class, are representing the defendant, may shape up as a showdown between the Electronic Frontier and Big Music. The defendant's witness list includes names such as those of Prof. Lawrence Lessig (Author of 'Free Culture'), John Perry Barlow (former songwriter of The Grateful Dead and cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation), Prof. Johan Pouwelse (Scientific Director of P2P-Next), Prof. Jonathan Zittrain (Author of 'The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It'), Professors Wendy Seltzer, Terry Fisher, and John Palfrey, and others. The RIAA requested, and was granted, an adjournment of the trial, from its previously scheduled December 1st date, to March 30, 2009. (The RIAA lawyers have been asking for adjournments a lot lately, asking for an adjournment in UMG v. Lindor the other day because they were so busy preparing for the Tenenbaum December 1st trial ... I guess when you're running on hot air, you sometimes run out of steam)."

6 of 288 comments (clear)

  1. first post by BountyX · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yes finally a first post, riaa sucks!!!!

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    1. Re:first post by BountyX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      =( looks like i blew it lol

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    2. Re:first post by VeNoM0619 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Who modded this offtopic? I still see it on topic, "blew it" as in air. After seeing this gem from the summary:

      I guess when you're running on hot air, you sometimes run out of steam)."

      And already having these 3 tags appear: steamisntair, steamiswater, !steam I'd say he made a slam dunk with his soccer ball for topic relations.

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    3. Re:first post by againjj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Offtopic? I would say that anyone who tried to make a "first post" blew it. Thus, the above comment is spot on. Apparently BountyX has gained some insight. (But don't anyone dare mod it insightful! We don't want to encourage such things.)

  2. DICh.K by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BSD's filesystem qua8reled on GNAA and support

  3. The first question to ask... by westlake · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Is what do these all these "expert" witnesses contribute to the case before the court?

    In the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial," the issue before the trial court wasn't evolution, it was the teaching of evolution in the public schools in violation of Tennessee state law.

    Which meant that all the intellectual firepower Darrow had assembled to defend evolution had no platform. They had nothing useful to say. Nothing admissible as evidence.

    The place to make that argument was before the Tennessee legislature.