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...least a few of Nesson’s students have been central to his involvement with Tenenbaum since the beginning, this fall, when he brought Joel to a meeting of his “CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion” class to discuss whether he should take on the case. When he did decide to represent Tenenbaum, some of the casework became part of the CyberOne curriculum. There have been additions to the team since then, part of the regular turnover from term to term, and much attrition (two of the students most heavily involved...
...deposition of Joel Tenenbaum, alleged file-downloader, alleged file-sharer, took place at 9:15 on a Wednesday morning late last September, in the skyscraper-bound Boston law offices of the commercial law firm Robinson and Cole. Just steps away, in a small Starbucks coffee shop situated right off the windswept brick pavement of Government Center square, the notoriously quirky Harvard Law professor Charles R. Nesson ’60, still in his first week representing Tenenbaum, prepped his young client in the moments before the encounter...
...fields a question about whether he downloaded pornography; Tenenbaum, in a fit of philosophical whimsy, informing the plaintiffs that he was sure of something only “to the extent that anyone can know anything about what they did while they were conscious”; Burton, requesting that Joel pick files he did not download from a 40-page printout of his share folder and receiving a listing of several off-color adult-film selections in response. Lawyerly disdain, often smothered by the formalism and conventions of the profession, went barely veiled...
...copyleft’ (those in favor of free distribution and download of digital material on the Internet) and the copy-conservatives (those who claim that such practices are disastrous for artists, industry, and by extension the economy as a whole.) For a generation full of Joel Tenenbaums, weaned on technology and proficient on the net, there’s more riding on this debate than ever before. “Back in the 80s if you made a mix cassette tape for your friends, that was probably illegal, but the record companies were never going...
...Even earlier, in the fall of 2003, when the RIAA announced that they would start suing hundreds of individual file-sharers for their activities, Nesson began thinking about representing a Harvard student, but was unable to find one affected by the industry’s campaigns. In this sense, Joel Tenenbaum, a student, sued by five major record labels for downloading seven songs and sharing several others while he was still in high school, was a windfall. Here was a chance to take action against an industry that, to Nesson’s mind, is advocating the repression...