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...Despite the setback, Nesson denied that the outcome of Tenenbaum's trial presented a significant setback to the effort to change digital copyright laws...
...Under the 1999 Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act, plaintiffs are awarded from $750 to $30,000 in statutory damages for each infringement, and up to $150,000 for each case of willful infringement. Pre-trial settlements offered by RIAA-appointed lawyers usually range from $3,000 to $5,000. Before the RIAA's litigation campaign ended last December, about 30,000 file-sharers had paid to settle...
...While wryly acknowledging Nesson's appeal, calling him an "eloquent speaker," RIAA attorney Timothy M. Reynolds argued that the "size and scope" of Tenenbaum's file-sharing constituted a willful violation of copyright laws, referring to him throughout the closing statement as simply "the defendant...
Creative Freedom Re "Let Someone Else Buy" by Justin Fox: it is interesting to see that the strongest and rising economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China - are also the ones with some of the worst records of copyright abuse [July 13]. Could it be that the corporations who are desperately clinging to their copyrights and intellectual properties, and spending billions in protecting them (mostly to the advantage of the lawyers and not the original creators), are in fact stifling innovation and economic growth in the process? Chris Patmore, LONDON...
Though she dismissed Tenenbaum's defense, calling it "so broad that it would swallow the copyright protections that Congress has created," Gertner acknowledged situations in which downloading copyrighted files might fall under fair...