JFB student cleared to argue in court
Student Cleared to Defend Tenenbaum at Appeals Argument Over Filesharing (Press Release)
Last week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals approved a motion that will allow a student member of Joel Tenenbaum’s defense team to make oral argument on his behalf. Tenenbaum is a graduate student at Boston University who was sued in 2007 for sharing thirty songs. A jury found him liable for $675,000 and the trial judge reduced the award to $67,500. Both parties appealed and on April 4th, Tenenbaum will become the first target of the RIAA litigation campaign to make it to the appellate level.
Jason Harrow is a third year student at Harvard Law School and has been a member of Professor Charles Nesson’s cottage industry of law students since 2009. Last November, Harrow won Harvard’s 100th Annual Ames Moot Court Competition judged by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Nesson and Harrow now prepare to faceoff against a high-powered opposition that includes former Solicit or General Paul Clement and the United States Department of Justice.
Of the stakes Harrow says, “It’s clear that the record industry sees the bigger issues present in this case, as they’ve hired one of the most famous and respected lawyers in the country to argue their side. It’s incredibly exciting to go up against him and tell the Court our story.”
Harrow explains that he felt compelled to act, “Joel could have been me or anyone else I knew. When I heard that someone just like me was being sued for hundreds of thousands dollars for just being an average college student, the unfairness was palpable.”
Oral argument is open to the public and takes place at 9:30 a.m. on April 4th at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston.
Are you purposely trying to lose? Clement is going to eat this kid alive, especially with such silliness as this as your defense:
“When I heard that someone just like me was being sued for hundreds of thousands dollars for just being an average college student”
Average college students spend their time studying, not pilfering the hard work of others.
I’m going to laugh when Clement eats Harrow’s lunch, and the First Circuit summarily extinguishes the hilarity that comprises Tenenbaum’s case.
@HaHa:
That is not Harrow’s defense. He was explaining his motivation, not his legal strategy.
Always great to have you on board, Jason!
[...] by Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson and student Jason Harrow, Tenenbaum will argue that the copyright statute, is being misinterpreted and misapplied and runs [...]
Clearly the DONKEY( HaHa) has not read the brief and should refrain
from comment until he has, if indeed the DONKEY has the ability to
perform the task.
A couple of years ago a NC police officer who was RECORDED discussing downloading for free. The officer named the name Kazaa which has appeared in numerous lawsuits and talked about how the songs were arranged in groups and you choose the songs and just click and get them. He said it was the thing to do everybody was doing it. He bet his daughters had downloaded a THOUSAND SONGS on his computer. He said he had to get a new computer his old one FILLED UP WITH MEMORY. He laughed and said he hoped the federal government did not come in and investigate him.
Shortly after this conversation we began reading the news articles people were being sued by RIAA and the FBI. They were calling piracy a crime of stealing and calling these people thieves. The RIAA and the FBI on their websites encourage people to report piracy. The FBI Anti Piracy Warning says they investigate. At that time we reported the officer’s conversation as well as his name to the RIAA and the FBI. It was ignored. A few months ago we were still reading news article people still being sued. Three of these cases that stood out were Joel Tennenbaum, Jammie Thomas and Whitney Harper all having to pay outrageous monetary amounts. Now feeling ignoring the officer’s conversation was unfair we began reporting the conversation to the RIAA the FBI the PD and several other anti piracy organizations along with the officer’s name asking why this was not investigated. Again it continues to be ignored. If piracy is a crime as the FBI the RIAA and others proclaim why was this conversation ignored. Considering piracy is being called a crime and the thousands of people that have been sued shouldn’t this conversation be investigated to see where the THOUSAND SONGS this officer talks about came from, who the everybody is that is doing this police officer’s conversation be investigated to see where the THOUSAND SONGS he talks about came from, who the everybody is that is doing it, and if he or his daughters may have committed what they are calling a crime. Ignoring this conversation seems to be an injustice to all the people that have been sued as well as to us as a citizen reporting it and it being ignored. How can they sue some and ignore a high ranking police officer discussing downloading music in this way. I feel this is wrong and don’t understand how this is allowed.
Mr. Goodman:
I am very familiar with the entirety of the briefings in this case. Tenenbaum’s briefs amount to a colossal joke, and they will get crushed once again at this level of appeal. I’ll come back and say ‘I told you so’ when the hammer drops and the Court of Appeals upholds the constitutionality of the statutory damages.
Good explanation. I like to read it IMDB