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Consensus! Tenenbaum defense is a trainwreck

TechDirt says that the Tenenbaum defense is a "trainwreck in motion." Picking up on copyright industry lawyer Ben Sheffner's opinion that the biggest error - of the many Team Tenenbaum made - was the failure to obtain an expert witness on economic damages, TechDirt's Mike Masnick writes: ...

Tags: Damage, Industry, File-sharing, Charles Nesson, Masnick, Strategy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Management, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Internet stars come out for RIAA trial

In RIAA lawsuit news, the Tennenbaum case â€" in which uber-lawyer Charles Nesson now represents the defendant â€" is taking an Internet star turn. Ray Beckerman reports that in a pretrial memo PDF, Nesson discloses that he intends to call some of the biggest legal names in digital rights. ...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, P2P, RIAA, Berkman Center, Charles Nesson, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Harvard Law prof weighs in on RIAA

In the May 1st issue of The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson spoke out against the RIAA's stepped-up attempts to turn "librarians and administrators [into] copyright police".  While he claimed to understand the RIAA's motivation, he noted that "mere understanding is no reason for a university to ...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-07

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Tenenbaum verdict: $675K

OK the the verdict is in. Joel Tenenbaum has been assessed $675,000, or $22,500 per song, for illegally distributing 30 songs via Kazaa, Ars Technica reports. That's not nearly as bad as I had feared, since it's within the realm of "normal" statutory damages (up to $30,000)....

Tags: Ars Technica, Verdict, Joel Tenenbaum, Tenenbaum, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Tenenbaum defense relies on hot air, not facts

Wacky Harvard Prof. Charles Nesson crumbled a styrofoam box and displayed a "Necker Cube" optical illusion in his opening statement in the Joel Tenenbaum filesharing trial, Ben Sheffner reports from Boston for Ars Technica. That proved apparently that the Internet transformed the quantum of music from...

Tags: Witness, Music, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing case

In a last-minute knockout punch, delivered just hours before the latest high-profile RIAA case was scheduled to start, Judge Nancy Gertner denied a fair use defense to Joel Tenenbaum, Ars Technica reports. Tenenbaum had sought to present his fair use theory to the jury but the judge...

Tags: Defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, Peer To Peer (P2P), Team Management, Internet, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Nesson asks Court to reconsider RIAA webcasting decision

Harvard prof Charles Nesson will ask the First Circuit Court of Appeals for an en banc review of a panel's refusal to allow webcasting of the Tenenbaum P2P trial -- and a stay of the hearing currently scheduled for April 30. Last week,...

Tags: Webcasting, RIAA, Nesson, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-24

First Circuit: Rule forbids webcasting. Judge: Time to change that rule.

It's not a far-reaching free-speech decision, despite Charles Nesson's efforts to make it so. It's not even a case on whether webcasting should be allowed as a matter of policy. It's a question of whether the local rule allows the judge to order webcasting, as she did. The court unanimously...

Tags: Webcasting, Broadcasting, First Circuit, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Opposition to Google's book deal: Just Microsoft?

Last fall, Google announced a breakthrough deal with book authors -- a $125 million fund from which authors would be compensated in exchange for Google being able to scan and display book images. I noted at the time that the deal offered a way out of...

Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-04

Radiohead: Filesharing good for music biz

The trial of Joel Tenenbaum is rapidly shaping up as a referendum on the harm of file-sharing, or lack thereof. Thus the star witness in Harvard law prof Charles Nesson's defense of Tenenbaum will be Radiohead manager Brian Message, MediaPost reports (via Ray...

Tags: Nesson, Sales Strategy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Sales, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Nesson calls for net, video coverage of RIAA trial

The RIAA's case against Joel Tenenbaum symbolizes the "extortion of a generation." Shouldnt' the generation be able to see the judicial process in action? Defense team Charles Nesson and students think it should be streamed. by Richard Koman

Tags: Courtroom, RIAA, Video, Tenenbaum, Internet, Corporate Communications, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-12-26

Harvard's Charlie Nesson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation

In a major development in RIAA litigation, Prof. Charles Neeson of Harvard Law School is charging that the RIAA's tactics are an abuse of federal process and that the law on which the litgation rests -- the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 -- is unconstitutional....

Tags: RIAA, Harvard, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Harvard prof holds law class in the virtual world of Second Life

As if a virtual world created by its residents wasnt wacky enough, a quirky Harvard professor has announced hes going to hold a law class there, reports The Harvard Crimson. Harvard Law professor Charles R. Nesson is offering a course called "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion,"...

Tags: Second Life

Blog posts 2006-09-28