RIAA v Tenenbaum webcasting: redux?
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- According to court papers filed in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the defendant is filing a petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, seeking review of the First Circuit’s ban on webcasting of district court proceedings.
Defendant has moved for a stay of all proceedings, in the District Court, pending Supreme Court review.
The petition is based on the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution, and among other things, raises the following issue:
In totally prohibiting a district court judge from exercising any discretion to facilitate exercise of the constitutional rights of public access by means of Internet or other electronic broadcasting of open-court sessions in civil cases, does the ruling below impermissibly restrict the judicial power vested in federal district court judges by the Constitution and creational statutes?
Motion for Stay
Petition for Certiorari
Ray Beckerman – Recording Industry vs The People
June, 2009
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June 2nd, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Even if broacasting the trial is forbiden (I woder under what law!) I hope that people will be able to bring cam-corders or at least audio digital recorders into the court so at least we will know what is going on. Even if they try to prevent people from bringing these into the court if enought people try, some will get through.
I thought that court trial should always be public, What kind of shit is that not to allow the broadcasting of the court proceeding?
We the people have the right to know and we must!