RIAA loses in Kylee case
p2pnet.net news:- It hasn’t been a good day for Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA.
Having been roundly defeated in California, it now has to give up its plans to haul a 10-year-old girl before a team of lawyers in a bid to get her to incriminate her mother.
Kylee Andersen’s mother, Tanya, a disabled Oregon woman, is said by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to have illegally distributed copyrighted music online.
She did no such thing, but it makes another case for the Big 4′s bizarre sue ‘em all marketing campaign, so no matter.
RIAA lawyers had planned to personally interrogate Kylee, who was only seven when the labels first decided to sue her mother, face to face. And they were very clear on this.
But judge Donald Ashmanskas has put an end to that idea. The RIAA can speak with Kylee, he’s ruled, but at her home, and by telephone only.
This is the second time Ashmanskas has put paid to RIAA schemes. Last year he ruled that if the Big 4 enforcement unit wanted a look at Andersen’s computer hard drive, she could hire her own expert, and the RIAA would have to foot the bill.
Nor is Mrs Andersen caving in.
She’s suing the RIAA under the Oregon RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
roundly defeated – New RIAA defeat, March 27, 2007
incriminate her mother – RIAA vs Kylee Andersen, 10, March 27, 2007
illegally distributed – RIAA targets 10-year-old girl, March 25, 2007
put paid – Tanya Andersen vs the RIAA, March 20, 2006
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March 27th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Well well well. The R.I.C.O. (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act (<http://www.ricoact.com/>
seems to have found a good use after all.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
One has to wonder what the RIAA is thinking about their lawyers right now. One defeat after another and they just don’t seem to get it. I wonder if the lawyers themselves are taking the RIAA for a ride…could be.
Jon, for a P2P news site that is anti-RIAA, why does the spellchecker say the RIAA is misspelled?
March 27th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
The spell checker is a function of the Firefox browser, not a feature of the P2Pnet website. If you went to the RIAA website and tried to leave a comment there, the spell checker would say it was spelled wrong on that site too.