Posted by Aaron Dulles and Debbie Rosenbaum
It is with grate excitement that we present John Perry Barlow’s expert report. Of the universe of opinions on the recording industry and possible defenses available for Joel, we find his increasingly compelling.
Barlow is a co-founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation. He’s also a Fellow at the Berkman Center [...]
Posted by Aaron Dulles.
Biggest thanks to everybody who has posted questions on the Think Like a Lawyer page.
We are harvesting the fruits of your work as we speak, combining subtleties of similar questions, asking novel questions we hadn’t fully considered before, and legalese-afying them in just the right way so that we can get the [...]
Guest written and posted by Jason Harrow, 1L at HLS.
The New Yorker’s longtime baseball writer Roger Angell once remarked that “the business of caring — caring deeply and passionately, really caring” is a “capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives.” As a first-year law student, it can sometimes seem that [...]
The audio of the this morning’s oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, on the subject of whether an oral argument in the District Court can be streamed online, is now available online at http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/files/audio/09-1090.mp3.
[update: Thanks to user Alter_Fritz for posting this with louder audio: available at: http://rapidshare.com/files/219297423/09-1090_edited.mp3]
The RIAA was [...]
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
With all the strangeness surrounding the case, I’ve been asked, “Joel, wouldn’t you be happier with more ..um… conventional representation?
Someone who doesn’t post everything to his blog?” My answers:
Q: What do you think of Nesson as a lawyer?
A: It’s really amazing the reactions he manages to elicit. People get a few sprinkles [...]
Submitted by supporters Mark Rosedale (law student at Suffolk), John Andrew Brewton, and Travis Mosley. — Thanks guys!
Recent News … in case you need to catch up
The big news from last week is insights into the legal strategy and the news about Radiohead testifying in the case. So far the legal strategy is not [...]
Dear Professor Nesson,
I just want to say how
crazy and smart
your strategy is on the tenenbaum case. I was
moved
by your summary to Fern -
it is so simple, but only if you are not a copyright lawyer.
luckily in the jury ordenary people sit,
dazed and confused and enraged and humiliated and empowered,
with whom you [...]
This case is as much about inspiring innovation and creativity from digital natives.
Challenge: what mash up represents this case to you?
Share your best mash up with us.
From Professor Nesson’s blog:
This is evidence that law school may teach you what process is, but not how it is used. Or if it is used.
This [...]
For my first post I just wanted to give a brief description of what it’s like to be working on the project. While several members of the group started working on the case or at least hearing about it in Professor Nesson’s CyberOne class, I joined the case relatively late in February. It was [...]
Hey all.
If you’ve been following the news stories on this case as of late, you’ve probably noticed a couple of apocalyptic tales about how the team is imploding, with the disintegration led by some schmuck called Ray Bilderbeck. So I thought I would put in an appearance on the blog, to explain what’s going on.
Yes, [...]