RIAA Told To Hand Over Data On Cost Per Download
Earlier this year, a court agreed to examine whether or not the fines the RIAA is asking for in its lawsuits against people accused of file sharing is constitutional (that whole "cruel and unusual"...
View ArticleWoman Admits File Sharing; Challenges Constitutionality Of Copyright Act
A few years back, there was a research paper released that posited that the fines sought by the RIAA for copyright infringement were unconstitutional. While this argument has been brought up in some...
View ArticleBig Guns Come Out In Effort To Show RIAA's Lawsuits Are Unconstitutional
People have been submitting this story nonstop, but I wanted to take some time to read the details before commenting on it. It's not the first time that folks have argued that the damages sought by...
View ArticleHarvard Team Asks Court To Allow Live Broadcast Of Tenenbaum Case Against RIAA
A bunch of folks have sent in the story that Charles Nesson of Harvard, who is challenging the constitutionality of the RIAA's lawsuits against file sharers, has filed a motion asking that the trial...
View ArticleJudge Approves Public Broadcast Of RIAA Lawsuit
Harvard Law prof. Charlie Nesson has been leading a case challenging the constitutionality of a core part of the RIAA's continuing lawsuit strategy. Late last year, he asked a judge if the trial...
View ArticleRIAA Really Does Not Want Live Broadcast Of Hearing In Tenenbaum Case
It seems the RIAA is, once again, showing its true colors. When Charlie Nesson asked the court in the Tenebaum case to allow a live internet broadcast of a hearing to dismiss the case, the RIAA...
View ArticleRIAA Asks For Sanctions Against Charles Nesson In Tenenbaum Suit
I think it would be an understatement to say that the RIAA is rather unhappy with Charles Nesson and his team of folks from Harvard Law, challenging them on the constitutionality of the RIAA's "sue...
View ArticleFile Sharing, Damages And The Constitution...
Doug Lichtman is a well known intellectual property law professor who is a fairly big supporter of the copyright system. He's reached out to us, because of a podcast he recently recorded discussing...
View ArticleConstitutionality Of The Copyright Royalty Board To Finally Get Tested In Court
Last year, we noted that, it seemed clear that the Copyright Royalty Board was unconstitutional. This was due to a technical legal process change a few years ago (which also impacted the patent...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Hear Case About Constitutionality Of Anti-Violent Video Game...
Over the past few years, at least ten states (probably more, but we've lost track) have tried to pass laws banning the sales of violent video games to children. And every single one of them (yes,...
View ArticleAppeals Court Hears Case Over Constitutionality Of Copyright Royalty Board
The Copyright Royalty Board is a horrific abomination of a judicial process -- it's basically a board of three totally out-of-touch judges who get to pick out of thin air what certain copyright...
View ArticleYet Another Court Says Illinois 'Eavesdropping' Law That Criminalizes...
We've covered in great detail the ridiculous law in Illinois that makes it a crime to record police, even while they're on duty, without their knowledge. This seems crazy to us, and it appears the...
View ArticleShocker: Court Says National Security Letters Are Unconstitutional, Bans Them
Well here's a surprising (and important) bit of late-Friday-breaking news. A federal court has ruled that national security letters (NSLs) are unconstitutional, and banned their use. For years we've...
View ArticleRep. Grayson: Let Me Tell The NSA: There Is No Threat To Our Nation When I...
So far, we've seen lots of Congressional Representatives falling over each other to attack Ed Snowden and Glenn Greenwald over the NSA surveillance efforts. A few have raised concerns, but if you want...
View ArticleNSA Surveillance Faces First Constitutional Challenge From Guy Arrested With...
Here's comes another challenge to the constitutionality of the NSA's programs. The ACLU has joined defendant Jamshid Muhtorov in filing a motion that claims his Fourth Amendment rights were violated...
View ArticleRIAA Told To Hand Over Data On Cost Per Download
Earlier this year, a court agreed to examine whether or not the fines the RIAA is asking for in its lawsuits against people accused of file sharing is constitutional (that whole "cruel and unusual"...
View ArticleWoman Admits File Sharing; Challenges Constitutionality Of Copyright Act
A few years back, there was a research paper released that posited that the fines sought by the RIAA for copyright infringement were unconstitutional. While this argument has been brought up in some...
View ArticleBig Guns Come Out In Effort To Show RIAA's Lawsuits Are Unconstitutional
People have been submitting this story nonstop, but I wanted to take some time to read the details before commenting on it. It's not the first time that folks have argued that the damages sought by...
View ArticleHarvard Team Asks Court To Allow Live Broadcast Of Tenenbaum Case Against RIAA
A bunch of folks have sent in the story that Charles Nesson of Harvard, who is challenging the constitutionality of the RIAA's lawsuits against file sharers, has filed a motion asking that the trial...
View ArticleJudge Approves Public Broadcast Of RIAA Lawsuit
Harvard Law prof. Charlie Nesson has been leading a case challenging the constitutionality of a core part of the RIAA's continuing lawsuit strategy. Late last year, he asked a judge if the trial...
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