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Defending criminal copyright infringement cases.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Computer hard drive. (Image from Pacific Northwest Laboratory's website). According to a posting at lawyer Allan Ellis's website, the United States Sentencing Commission reports that 94% of federal criminal cases result in guilty pleas. This week, my client and I bucked that trend by proceeding to a jury trial in Alexandria, Virginia, federal court for alleged criminal copyright infringement. Wired's blog describes my trial as the first federal trial for online criminal copyright infringement that primarily involved music; that does not mean that others have not entered guilty pleas for such accusations, because they have. For this trial, I had the pleasure of working with a top-notch computer forensics expert, with whom I previously worked for child pornography defense...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 23, 2008 (boomark / email).