Meet a new part of Joel’s team!

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 [...]

Gertner’s Ruling on Damages

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 [...]

Case Update

“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 [...]

Whitney Harper

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.

new trial, please.

Earlier today, we filed this Motion for a New Trial and Remittitur to Judge Gertner, the same judge who presided over the original trial. (BTW, remittitur is fancy legal talk meaning a ruling by a judge lowering the amount of damages granted by a jury — usually,  because the amount awarded exceedes the amount demanded.) [...]

Mail Reflections

Want to share your thoughts?  Email us at joelfightsback@gmail.com
Here’s one email we received this morning:

For all the reading I’ve done on the internet, I can’t help but notice there are a few very important points that are being missed to the average reader. I feel the most important of these is what I’ve [...]

JFB blog policy

Just a note:
In light of comments made and the potential for confusion, JFB would like to clarify its stance on what we post.
We hope that joelfightsback.com will become an active medium for discussion about the music industry, copyright law, as well as Joel’s case.  We believe that letting that discussion happen, even when people disagree, [...]

Joel Tenenbaum’s trial diary: Part one

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 [...]

Musings on the RIAA’s “Musings”

Today, the talented and beautiful master of PR and spin for the RIAA, Cara Ducksworth, posted a blog post entitled “Musings on Tenenbaum Case.”
Almost immediately, TechDirt jumped in to correct some misinformed “facts” asserted by the music industry.
The issue of P2P file-sharing isn’t going to disappear because of Joel’s trial, and a solution will hopefully [...]