It’s been a while since my last post and you might wonder what’s happened in the meantime. Since October 2011, I’ve made trips to visit family and friends, filed the appropriate forms to defend my doctoral dissertation (defense date: April 13!), and had another paper published. I mention these things first because this is my life [...]
You may have come here looking for our position on the appeals court’s ruling last.
As you may recall, a jury in 2009 decided that I should pay $675,000, or $22,500 per song, for making songs available on KaZaA in the early 2000s.
Post-trial, we filed a motion asking Judge Gertner to reduce the damages amount to something [...]
Weren’t able to join us at oral argument before the First Circuit judges?
Listen to the audio file of the hearing here.
Also:
First person narrative of the hearing by “Joel Sage,” a Massachusetts attorney, copyright law aficionado, and sometimes photographer at Legally Sociable.
Coverage by the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Computer World, and Torrent Freak.
On April 4th, the First Circuit will hear oral argument on the appeals of Joel Tenenbaum, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the U.S. Department of Justice. All three parties appealed after the trial judge reduced a $675,000 jury verdict for sharing 30 songs down to $67,500. The only issues remaining on appeal regard [...]
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 [...]
Missed the Tenenbaum trial from July 2009? Here are transcripts from every moment.
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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 [...]
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 [...]