The music piracy debate in Europe got a lot of attention last week.
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Tennessee Passes First-Ever Campus Downloading Bill
On November 12, 2008, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen signed into law Senate Bill 3974 in an effort to curb the illegal downloading of music and movies across the computer networks of colleges and universities in the state. The bill states that “[e]ach public and private institution of higher education in the state that has student residential computer networks shall ...
The End of the $9000 Song Download?
Charles Nesson, a Harvard Law School professor, has launched a constitutional attack against the federal copyright law at the heart of lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA, against people who share songs online. Nesson initiated his challenge to the law after a federal judge in Boston asked his office to represent Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student accused by the RIAA of downloading at least seven songs and making 816 songs a
And isn’t it Ironic? A Little Too Ironic?
When a recent Recording Industry of America (RIAA) court filing repeatedly used terms like “vexatious,” “good faith,” “frivolous,” or “integrity,” I couldn’t help but be reminded of the great swordsman-sage Inigo Montoya, whose response to a similarly questionable word choice was, “I do not think it means what you think it means.“
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