The U.S. District Court for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Nelson Design Group LLC v. Puckett et al; No. 3:2007cv00177 (07-117); Filed: November 21, 2007; Court: Arkansas Eastern District Court; Office: Jonesboro Office; County: Craighead Not much to see [...]
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Ray Beckerman, attorney for defendant in UMG v. Lindor, an RIAA filesharing lawsuit, had a minor victory this week. Recording Industry vs. The People The judge in the case, Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy, gave a partial grant to defendant’s motion to compel discovery. At issue is one of the defendants affirmative defenses, that the damages sought, [...]
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Over a year ago, Robert Tur was the first person to bring suit against Youtube for copyright infringement. At issue, video coverage Tur shot of the 1992 Los Angeles riots (search Youtube for L.A. riot video). This week at Tur’s bequest, a Los Angeles federal court judge dismissed the suit.a copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube in [...]
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As there has been much talk about the validity of the jury instructions in Capital Records v. Thomas, especially instruction no.s 14 and 15 , I thought it would be nice for everyone to see them in their entirety. I think that jury instructions should be taken and evaluated as a whole, as the jury see’s them, not [...]
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Jurors from Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas are talking, and what they are saying is going to make a lot of people very angry. Several of the jurors wanted to give the maximum penalty of $150,000 per song for each of the 24 songs ($3.6 million total). In the end, they compromised at under [...]
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Filed last week in the Federal District court, New York Southern District Court was Bourne Co. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, et al, Case Number: 1:2007cv08580, Filed: October 3, 2007. The owner of the copyright of the song “When You Wish Upon a Star” is suing 20th Century Fox (and others including Seth McFarlane personally) [...]
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A reprint of the AP newswire can be found at CNN Money: “Guilty verdict in music file-sharing case”. The bottom line is exactly what you thought it would be when you first heard about the case: guilty. The case focused on 24 songs, for which Thomas will now have to pay damages of $9,250 each [...]
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I was wondering when this bit of revisionism would take hold. I do not have a side in this battle (or a stake in it, when is my phone going to ring?), and for me it is purely an academic issue which should be framed thusly: “Whether format-shifting music (such as ripping a CD to [...]
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Excite News – Music Download Trial Starts in Minn. Her trial offers the first chance for both sides in the debate over online music sharing to show a jury its version of the facts. Opening statements were expected Tuesday morning. Am amateur musician was among the jurors seated.
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The U.S. District Courts for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Virgin Records America Inc et al v. Does, Case Number 4:2007cv00863, Filed: September 20, 2007, Court: Arkansas Eastern District Court Virgin Records America Inc, Atlantic Recording Corporation, BMG Music, [...]
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