Mavis Roy to Franklin Pierce students:
p2pnet news view P2P:- In the 21st digital century, it’s routine for the multi-billion-dollar corporate music companies, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, to viciously attack the very people who keep them alive.
And thanks to legal systems in which for the most part, only the wealthy can hope to be able to buy adequate expert representation, victims such as Jammie Thomas-Rasset are trampled.
She’s being fined $1.92 million not for robbing a bank, but for alleged copyright infringements.
But the tide is turning and the supposed victory will in fact end up as a total and unmitigated disaster for the Big 4 labels, and one from which they’ll never recover, said p2pnet recently. “The backlash in terms of public relations and the inevitable plummet in ‘product’ sales that will follow is incalculable” we added.
And as an indication of the way things can be, here’s a letter from RIAA victim Mavis Roy to a group of law students at the Consumer and Commercial Law Clinic of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire, who ensured she won’t have ridiculous penalties such as those imposed on Jammie hanging over her head »»»
To all the wonderful lawyers and students that worked on my behalf:
I want to express my gratitude to all of you for all that you have done for me. I had no idea that there were wonderful lawyers anywhere, especially lawyers as compassionate, caring and hardworking as Attorney Peter Wright and Attorney Ashlyn Lembree. When I walked into the Franklin Pierce Law Clinic on July 3, 2008 I was in a desperate state. Ken Fortier was so nice and so helpful.
I had a good feeling when I left here. Then when I was contacted and told that my case was accepted I really didn’t know what to expect. I had no idea that I would be treated so kindly and with so much respect. It is difficult to ask for help/charity. But I never felt that I was treated any less than a high paying client. The hours and hours of hard work that was done on mybehalf were amazing to me.
I could barely read the paperwork without getting a headache. But Attorney Wright and Attorney Lembree and the students worked diligently to be sure that all T’s were crossed and I’s were dotted. And the outcome is such a relief. I could go on and on.
I am still unsettled that the record companies are able to treat upstanding American Citizens in this way. Invading people’s privacy and accusing people of things tht don’t even make sense. It is such a sad waste of the courts time.
I will always be grateful.
“I will always be grateful,” Mavis adds.
JN
June, 2009
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June 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Hi Jon,
I am Barbara Wilson, Associate Director of Communications at Franklin Pierce Law Center. Thanks for the posts about the Mavis Roy RIAA settlement.
Mavis’ letter struck us, too, as a great reminder of why the students and profs at Pierce Law put so much time into her case and many others’, too. A couple of elucidations that might help your readers better understand the case.
Mavis’ case was taken on, not just by one but by two clinics: Consumer & Commercial as you reported, led by Prof. Peter Wright, and Intellectual Property & Transaction, led by Prof. Ashlyn Lembree. We think that the combination of the two was key to success as students in the IP and Transaction clinic come with engineering and science backgrounds and were really able to get a handle on the tech background of the case, while the Consumer & Commercial students really looked at the human elements.
Also, the rekeying of Mavis’ letter in your blog created some errors in her words. We apologize; we should not have created a PDF from an image so that you couldn’t simply cut and paste. Here is the corrected verbiage:
To all the wonderful lawyers and students that worked on my behalf:
I want to express my gratitude to all of you for all that you have done for me. I had no idea that there were wonderful lawyers anywhere, especially lawyers as compassionate, caring and hardworking as Attorney Peter Wright and Attorney Ashlyn Lembree. When I walked into the Franklin Pierce Law Clinic on July 3, 2008 I was in a desperate state. Ken Fortier was so nice and so helpful. I had a good feeling when I left here. Then when I was contacted and told that my case was accepted I really didn’t know what to expect. I had no idea that I would be treated so kindly and with so much respect. It is difficult to ask for help/charity. But I never felt that I was treated any less than a high paying client. The hours and hours of hard work that was done on mybehalf were amazing to me. I could barely read the paperwork without getting a headache. But Attorney Wright and Attorney Lembree and the students worked diligently to be sure that all T’s were crossed and I’s were dotted. And the outcome is such a relief. I could go on and on.
I am still unsettled that the record companies are able to treat upstanding American Citizens in this way. Invading people’s privacy and accusing people of things tht don’t even make sense. It is such a sad waste of the courts time.
I will always be grateful.
Sincerely,
Mavis Roy
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 pm
@ Barbara:
I’ve replaced my version with Mavis’ original Thank You note.
Apologies for any mistakes I made, and for not giving credit to everyone involved.
Cheers!
June 22nd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
yeh dont leave anyine out
June 28th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Why are there no details of the case here?
June 28th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
^^ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18315
Cheers!
June 29th, 2009 at 3:14 am
“accusing people of things tht don’t even make sense”
should be “accusing people of things that don’t even make sense”
…ya missed an ‘a’
(in both the original and the reprint)