Comments on: Elektra v Barker / London-Sire v Doe

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:06:46 +0000

“You can often tell if someone understands how wrong their actions are by the lengths to which they go to rationalize them.”

The above gem is the start of today’s 94-4-08) NY Times editorial, which deals with the Bush administration torture of prisiones.

And speaking of torture and voluminous documentation….

Isn’t it odd that copyright infringement cases againt RIAA customes wind up having thousands of pages as evidence and judge rulings? Why must so much confusion be “cleared” when the alleged infringers themselves know hardly anything about copyright law, related jurisprudence and related international treaties? Is it torture too? Think about it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:53:54 +0000

I was sued for infringement. The judge said there was no infringement. The record compan appealed and the appeals court and three judges confirmed there was no infringement. The record company went to the Supreme Court. The Supremes said the four previous judges were mistaken because there was infringement. Now here I am, after having thought and researched the law like the first three judges, flat broke because I have to pay the record company.

The judges typically say ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Can someone explain to me what is wrong with tis picture?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:49:41 +0000

I lent my full 100 CD album to a friend, mind you, for listening purposes only. The CDs had been made available to me by the record store. Did I make it avallabe for infringement purposes too if my friend, without telling me decided to copy the CDs? Will RIAA sue me? Or my friend? Or the record store? Or all?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:47:47 +0000

When judges cannot agree what is infringement, how can a school kid or anyone know when he/she may infringe and how can anyone say it was willfull?