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 [...]
The case for the innocent infringer — an interview with RIAA President Cary Sherman. From Viceland: DOWNLOADING SOME BULLSHIT: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE RIAA
A few years ago the RIAA switched tactics. Instead of high-profile prosecutions of people who pirated music, you decided to put the onus on the ISPs. How successful was that transition?
The [...]
There’s a lot of music content out there and a lot of ways to get it. Free music bombards us in all directions: from the radio, YouTube, Pandora, and Grooveshark — to what plays in a restaurant while you eat. But since P2P programs are so widespread and downloading music is just a simple click [...]
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
Over the years, my position has been misconstrued to be against a great number of things: intellectual property, artist rights, paid-for music, artists being paid, or even capitalism itself.
Let me clarify: I am against none of these things.
What I am against is the massive litigation campaign the RIAA has pursued against individuals [...]
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
I wanted to take a moment and share some reflections on the robust debate from our blog over the effects of file-sharing. Along with my unrelentingly dedicated team, we hope to post more often and utilize this website as a forum for dialog.
It seems the lesser-known artists benefit the most from file-sharing, and [...]
Posted by Debbie Rosenbaum
As HLS students graduate, we continue to build new teams to help us defend Joel in both the court of law as well as the court of public opinion. Although Joel, Debbie, and Professor Nesson remain central to Joel’s core team, we are pleased to offer the opportunity to work on such [...]
Posted by Debbie Rosenbaum
Almost five months after we last sat in Judge Gertner’s courtroom requesting that she either reduce the damages or award a new trial, Judge Gertner finally made a long-awaited ruling today.
In our motion to the court, we argued that that the jury’s award of $675,000 in statutory damages was grossly excessive and [...]
“Joel, we haven’t heard from you in a while! Is it over?”
Hi everyone! Thanks so much for checking in with us. The case is definitely not over; rather, we’re in a holding pattern waiting for Judge Gertner’s decision regarding our remittitur motion. (See the details in our blog post)
We asked the court to adjust the [...]
Posted for Professor Nesson
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Whitney Harper’s case is important, though its importance has yet to be noticed. It provides a key step in the legal logic that the RIAA will use down the road to justify ISPs terminating user’s net connections for violating copyrights. Innocence is no defense.