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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve gotten a huge response from the latest round of news as people have found me on facebook and twitter, and I’m glad to hear how much interest there is and how much support is out there. I thought I’d respond to one of the more recurring questions.
Joel, do you still download music?
I buy [...]
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By Professor Thomas J. Impelluso, Ph.D.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
San Diego State University
In just under three years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued over 20,000 music fans for file sharing. Recently, they commenced an aggressive new litigation campaign to protect their interests further. But this begs the question: What, [...]
From the Guardian.
The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts is a marvel of modern architecture. The design places emphasis on hopeful transparency and features stone-engraved quotations evoking notions of freedom and equality.
On the Monday morning of my trial, I met my mother (along with my spokeswoman Debbie, and my defence lawyer professor [...]