Another RIAA victim says No!
p2p news / p2pnet: The numbers of people challenging Big Four record label cartel continue to grow.
The latest person to refuse to give in to spurious RIAA ’settlement’ demands is Duanne McCall from White Bear Lake in Minnesota.
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is owned by Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and EMI who are using it to try to sue their own American customers, including children, into buying ‘product’.
Through the Elektra Entertainment Group, the same outfit that’s harassing Patti Santangelo, they’re accusing McCall of continuing copyright infringement.
Santangelo will be the first of the more than 17,000 Americans currently being victimized by the Big Four to actually appear before a jury in a civil, or any other, court.
Clearly, her trial will have major ramifications for new and existing cases. But at this point Santangel, who lives in Nrew York and who’s the mother of five children, is representing herself .
The Patti Santengelo Fight Goliath donation campaign currently stands at $5,490.54 and you can help by donating whatever you can afford via Pay Pal (below) or by snail-mailing your contribution to:
Patti Santangelo
c/o Ray Beckerman
Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP
99 Park Ave (16th Fl)
New York, NY 10016
Go here for updates of amounts contributed to date, and for a list of sites from North America and Europe (so far) carrying donation buttons. And we’ll be hearing from Beckerman on contributions sent to Patti by regular mail.
If you’d like to include a button on your site, get the code here. For now, spread the news in any way you can think of – like Todd in New Jersey whose first podcast features the Patti campaign.
Meanwhile, we’ve just heard from another woman who’s being pilloried.
“Their case uses a program called Kazaa and an account I have never even heard of, and accuses me of downloading music I would never in my LIFE listen to!” she says in an email.
Stay tuned.
Directory of lawyers defending RIAA lawsuits
Below is Recording Industry vs The People’s list of lawyers who are actively defending RIAA lawsuits. If you’d like to be added to this, or if you know of someone who should be included, please email musiclitigation@earthlink.net:
United States
Alaska
500 Island Corporate Center
7525 SE 24 Street
Mercer Island, WA 98040-2336
(206) 230-4255
Massachusetts
Attorney Charles J. DiMare, Director
Attorney Lisa Kent, Senior Staff Advisor
Student Legal Services Office
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01002
413-545-1995
Michigan
2684 West Eleven Mile Road
Berkley, MI 48072
248-591-9291
Minnesota
204 North Star Bank
4661 Highway 61
White Bear Lake, MN 55110
651.653.0990
Email: btoder@chestnutcambronne.com
Wojtalewicz, Brian E.
Wojtalewicz Law Firm
139 N. Miles Street
PO Box 123
Appleton, MN 56208-0123
Phone 320-289-2363 or 800-377-1812
Fax 320-289-2369
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625 Broadway
Alexandria, MN 56308
Phone 320-762-8382 or 800-377-1812
Email: brian@wojtalewiczlawfirm.com
New York
Beckerman, Ray
Rogers, Morlan Ty
99 Park Avenue (16th Floor)
New York, NY 10016
(212) 490-0400
Oklahoma
4901 Richmond Square
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
(405)840-3101
Fax (405)842-3843
Oregon
500 Island Corporate Center
7525 SE 24 Street
Mercer Island, WA 98040-2336
(206) 230-4255
Texas
701 Commerce St., Suite 510
Dallas, Texas 75202
214-752-4130 phone
469-227-9010 fax
Email browninglaw@sbcglobal.net
1177 West Loop South Suite 400
Houston, Texas 77027
Phone: (713) 877-1515
Fax: (713)877-1145
Email: ksunstrom@gfiplaw.com
Washington
500 Island Corporate Center
7525 SE 24 Street
Mercer Island, WA 98040-2336
(206) 230-4255
France*
Hugot, Olivier
HugotAvocat
44 Rue Coquilliere
Paris 75001
France
+33 (0)1 55 80 72 50
Email: olivier@hugot.fr
Israel
Lichtenstein, Yoram
3a Jabotinsky st.,
Ramat Gan
Israel 52520
Tel.: 972-3-6133333
Fax.: 972-3-6133334
Netherlands
Alberdingk Thijm, Christiaan
SOLV Advocaten
P.O. Box 75538
1070 AM Amsterdam
Schippersgracht 1-3
1011 TR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 20 5300160
F +31 20 5300170
M +31 6 25017 235
E thijm@solv.nl
Additional attorneys may be found at Electronic Frontier Foundation Subpoena Defense
Also See:
the first – Fight Goliath fund breaks $5,000, January 16, 2006
January 20th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
good for him! I hope he wins!