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Debbie Rosenbaum, a joint Law School and Business School student who is participating in Tenenbaum's defense, said that she and Nesson were disappointed that they would not be able to frame the case in the terms of "fair...
...Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson '60, Tenenbaum's lawyers had said they would argue that downloading songs for non-commercial purposes constituted "fair use" of copyrighted material. If so, the plaintiffs--several large recording companies including Sony and Warner Bros--would not be justified in claiming millions in damages...
Such a defense, if successful, would have also introduced a novel meaning of copyright law as it applies to digital media. Nesson's argument, Gertner said, would have legalized any downloading of copyrighted material so long as it was used for a person's private enjoyment...
...Then there is conservative Republican Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who has announced she will be filling in only the number of people in her household and no other information since she doesn't trust the government to use it responsibly. (Technically, doing so would break a federal law.) In a nice twist, the state of Minnesota itself is rallying its residents to send in their forms, since shifting populations nationwide may mean the loss of a Minnesota seat in the House. The Minnesota Complete Count Committee will be in full force at the state fair this summer, handing out buttons...
...looking at the prospect of North Korea without Kim Jong Il," a diplomatic source told TIME. "If he's as sick as some reports indicate, we're looking at a very uncertain future." Intelligence reports earlier this year spotlighted Chang Sung Taek, Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law, as the likely "regent" in a post-Kim world, riding herd over Kim Jong Un, the 20-something who is likely to be the Dear Leader's successor. But sources say there is now increasing uncertainty as to how much authority Chang may actually have, now or in the future...