Sony lawyer who ‘misspoke’ joins RIAA
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Jennifer Pariser, the daughter of a judge who, according to RIAA truth adjustment specialist Cary Sherman ”misspoke” during the first Capitol Records v. Thomas trial a little more than a year ago, must nonetheless have impressed him.
She’s been hired by the RIAA, says Recording Industry vs The People.
Pariser was at the time working for Sony BMG Music and now RIvTH quotes Variety as stating »»»
Pariser will oversee all RIAA litigation matters and provide counsel on a variety of other issues. Pariser replaces Ken Doroshow, who recently left the RIAA to serve as general counsel of the Entertainment Software Assn.
She replaces Ken ‘Horror Show’ Doroshow who, regular readers will recall, was once supposed to debate statutory damages with Ray Beckerman, but chickened out.
Doroshow left the RIAA and to join the ESA (Entertainment Software Association) and if he accomplishes for game manufacturers what he accomplished for the recording industry, “I’d say the industry`s prospects are bleak,” said Beckerman at the time.
On the question of misspeaking, National Public Radio hosted in on-air debate between Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher and Sherman, said CNET News‘ Greg Sandoval, stating Sherman admitted unequivocally during an NPR debate:
The Sony person [Pariser] who (Fisher) relies on actually misspoke in that trial. I know because I asked her after stories started appearing. It turns out that she had misheard the question. She thought that this was a question about illegal downloading when it was actually a question about ripping CDs. That is not the position of Sony BMG. That is not the position of that spokesperson. That is not the position of the industry.
Fisher also has her saying, making a “copy” of a purchased song is just “a nice way of saying ’steals just one copy’.”
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