As we blogged about last month, Whitney Harper, a minor who has been pursued by the music industry for downloading songs, was allowed to and then denied from using an ”innocent infringement” defense, which would decrease the potential statutory minimum down from $750 to $200. The appeals court overturned the ruling, and said that Whitney should have known that [...]
Posted by: Joel Tenenbaum
This is the pile of used CDs I’ve bought since the July 31st ruling. This could have been the RIAA’s business on iTunes, but this is now how I buy my music.
We’re participating in a class blog run by Brett Caraway and students from the Department of Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. His students submitted questions for our team, and we will be answering them in a series of cross posts over there.
Of course, we are eager to share the discussion with all of [...]
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
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Hi all,
You may have noticed that I’m not a terriblJy diligent blogger these days. While Cara Duckworth and the RIAA might put in full-time hours on publicity,* all I seem to manage is a few posts a month and interviews where I often seem like I could have said things better. The [...]