Supreme Court May Tune In To Music Download Case

droopus writes "The US Supreme Court is weighing into the first RIAA file-sharing case to reach its docket, requesting that the music labels' litigation arm respond to a case testing the so-called 'innocent infringer' defense to copyright infringement. The case pending before the justices concerns a federal appeals court's February decision ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 — $750 a track — for file-sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The appeals court decision reversed a Texas federal judge who, after concluding the youngster was an innocent infringer, ordered defendant Whitney Harper to pay $7,400 — or $200 per song. That's an amount well below the standard $750 fine required under the Copyright act. Harper is among the estimated 20,000 individuals the RIAA has sued for file-sharing music. The RIAA has decried Harper as 'vexatious,' because of her relentless legal jockeying."

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Funny.

[morgan_greywolf]

And here I thought it was the RIAA who was vexatious.

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[Surt]

Are you sure? I've never heard of that. Can you cite an example?

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[blair1q]

I'm not sure why that's modded Funny, since it's basically factual.

I would have modded it Dismal. If I had mod points. And there was a Dismal selection.