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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- US district judge Michael Davis’ mistrial decision in the Jammie Thomas file sharing case is “unreasoned” and “unreasonable,” says a “market oriented think tank”. And leading the attack on behalf of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, with Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG and their RIAA, together with [...]
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... is usually good, but that seems the exception). Sydnor's latest is an attack on the judge in the Jammie Thomas trial for declaring a mistrial in her case for wrongly instructing the jury that simply making a file available should be considered infringement. As the judge realized (correctly, in our opinion, and the opinion of plenty of legal experts) this was a "manifest error of law."...
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CREATT Interactive Group (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
We’ve written plenty of times about the so-called “think tank” the Progress & Freedom Foundation. The group, which has called itself a “free market” think tank appears to be anything but free market when it comes to intellectual property issues. For years, it’s been a huge supporter of increasingly strengthening gov’t granted monopolies, [...]
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
PFF takes on Jammie Thomas and copyright infringement by "making available" on peer-to-peer networks. Read More...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... is usually good, but that seems the exception). Sydnor's latest is an attack on the judge in the Jammie Thomas trial for declaring a mistrial in her case for wrongly instructing the jury that simply making a file available should be considered infringement. As the judge realized (correctly, in our opinion, and the opinion of plenty of legal experts) this was a "manifest error of law."...
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
A conservative think tank lashed out at U.S. District Judge Michael Davis on Monday, calling his mistrial decision in the Jammie Thomas music sharing lawsuit "unreasoned," "unreasonable" and "injudicious." The new position paper (.pdf) from the Progress and Freedom Foundation says the judge's September ruling...
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IPcentral Weblog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Oh, dear. Mr. Mike Masniak of Techdirt has thrown yet another apoplectic fit because a Fellow at the Progress and Freedom Foundation has articulated an interpretation of U.S. intellectual-property laws that conflicts with Mr. Masniak's own. He has also conjoined two wholly separate claims: Mr. Masniak claimed that I unfairly characterized both the Thomas decision and Professor Lessig's lament...
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Recording Industry vs The People (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
In Capitol Records v. Thomas , defendant Jammie Thomas has filed papers opposing the RIAA's motion for permission to file an immediate appeal from the Court's September 24, 2008, decision . Defendant's memorandum of law in opposition Keywords: lawyer digital copyright law online internet law legal download upload peer to peer p2p file sharing filesharing music movies indie independent...
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Jammie Thomas, the nation's first person to bring a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit to trial, is urging (.pdf) the judge in her case to let a retrial go forward. In September, U.S. District Judge Michael Davis overturned the jury's verdict that...
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AfterDawn.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Last year a Minnesota woman became the first person ever to lose a P2P copyright infringement case to the RIAA . It was initially heralded as a victory for the RIAA's argument that simply offering files for download violated copyright holders' exclusive rights. But after Thomas appealed the decision she was granted a new trial based on the judge's determination that the RIAA's legal theory...
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Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Duluth, Minn. - A federal judge has set a tentative date of March 9 to begin the retrial of Jammie Thomas, the first person to be convicted by a jury of copyright infringement on file-sharing networks, whose earlier conviction was vacated by the judge, Wired.com reported. read more
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
A federal judge tentatively has set (.pdf) a March 9 retrial date in the Jammie Thomas music file sharing case. Of about 30,000 cases the Recording Industry Association of America has lodged against peer-to-peer users, the Thomas case was the first and only one to...
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BetaNews (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
After last month's mistrial in the proceedings against accused copyright infringer Jammie Thomas, a defendant in a similar file-sharing cases is using the decision as a precedent for retrial.
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
... available" a song on a peer-to-peer network? The judge in the case of single-mother and Kazaa user Jammie Thomas didn't think so—but Thomas Sydnor of the Progress and Freedom Foundation says his arguments are not only flimsy, but incoherent. I waded into the fray. Read more... Related stories Political Web Sites Post-Election Not Doing As Bad As You'd Think Taboola clinches...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
This week at Law & Disorder, we checked in on the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case, pondered the metaphysics of machine intelligence, and debated when a file on a p2p network is "distributed." Read More...
