RIAA goes after Joel Tenenbaum’s parents
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA seem to have gotten things a little backward in their fight with Harvard law students, their professor, Charles Nesson, and alleged massive online file sharer Joel Tenenbaum, their client.
Normally, the corporate music extortion unit attacks victims’ parents first, and only then goes after their real target, the children.
This time, however, Joel’s mother and father, Arthur and Judie Tenenbaum, have been dragged into it.
Said a recent p2pnet post »»»
Harvard professor Charles Nesson, colleagues of his and students he’s teaching, are leading the way in demonstrating plainly and unequivocally to Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US) and their RIAA they have no business trying to subvert American schools in the interests of corporate profits.
Nesson has, “gone to bat for an RIAA defendant in Boston, entering a case in which he will be taking the RIAA on directly, squaring off against Timothy Reynolds, Eve Burton, and Laurie Rust, the same Denver, Colorado, lawyers trying to dismiss UMG Recordings v Lindor in Brooklyn,” said Recording Industry vs The People’s Ray Beckerman recently.
“The Massachusetts case is SONY BMG Music v Tenenbaum, one of the hundreds of cases consolidated in Boston under the caption London-Sire v. Does 1-4.”
The Big 4’s RIAA is, “in the process of bringing to bear upon the defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, the full might of its lobbying influence and litigating power,” says Nesson and his “crack team of CyberOne students” on Harvard’s CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion blog.
Now, at a hearing, today, in Rhode Island federal court, Nesson and his team of students will defend Rhode Island residents Arthur and Judie Tenenbaum from the full might of the US recording industry’s combined lobbying and litigating power, they say, going on »»»
The Tenenbaums face legal pressure from the industry’s lawsuit against their son, Joel, a graduate student at Boston University accused of sharing music files online.
Nesson and his team allege that the Recording Industry Association of America and a coalition of record companies are abusing the federal court system with their litigation tactics, which attempt to make an example out of Joel and his family in the name of “deterrence.” Joel faces possible damages of more than $1 million for allegedly sharing seven songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network.
The Dec. 15 hearing will address the recording industry’s motion to force Arthur and Judie to produce their home computer so that it can be inspected for evidence of copyright infringement. The computer is not the device on which the alleged downloading took place, and Arthur and Judie did not own the computer when Joel lived with them.
“The basic rules of evidence suggest that this invasion of privacy is both unnecessary and absurd,” said Matt Sanchez, one of Nesson’s students working on the case. “This hearing isn’t only about Joel’s parents. It’s also about finally putting up a fight against the recording industry’s intimidation practices.”
The hearing is scheduled for December 15 at 10:00 AM at the Federal Building and Courthouse, One Exchange Terrace, Providence, RI 02903 in Courtroom A, before Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond. Interviews will be available with Charles Nesson and his students immediately following the hearing.
For more information, please visit: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/riaa/.
Stay tuned, and don’t forget to check out the team’s Facebook page.
(Thanks, Debbie, and thanks, Ray)
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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