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 [...]
On Thursday, we filed our final brief to the First Circuit. The brief concludes two rounds of briefing by both sides (our earlier brief can be found here, and all the prior briefing by the parties can be found here). This is the last word to the Court before an oral argument in front of [...]
50 Cent on File-sharing
Missed the Tenenbaum trial from July 2009? Here are transcripts from every moment.
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Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
Recently came across this blog by Ryan Piccirillo. We were touched by the story. Reposted below.
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MARCH 1, 2010 · 7:48 PM
http://freshmandenial.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/an-hero-joel-tenenbaum/
An Hero: Joel Tenenbaum
Since coming to BU I have been fortunate to hear some pretty remarkable people speak: from Elie Wiesel to John Krasinski, from Noam Chomsky to Michael Cera, not to mention many distinguishes guest-lecturers [...]
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
Randomly found this on the sidewalk.
By Jason Harrow & Phil Hill (JFB legal team, generation 3)
It has been nearly six months since the trial court judge in our case reduced the $675,000 jury verdict against Joel down to $67,500. After many years of wrangling and a week-long trial in the summer of 2009, that decision finally ended the proceedings before [...]
Guest post by Whitney Harper
Buried in a document full of rejections, last week the Supreme Court denied to hear my case. I am a defendant in one of the tens of thousands of cases against peer-to-peer file-sharers. The music industry has pursued a litigation campaign in an attempt to hold a selection of individuals responsible for [...]
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.