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: Handakte WebLAWgLaw professor fires back at song-swapping lawsuits
By Handakte
The music industry’s courtroom campaign against people who share songs online is coming under counterattack.
A Harvard Law School professor has launched a constitutional assault against a federal copyright law at the heart of the industry’s aggressive strategy, which has wrung payments from thousands of song-swappers since 2003.
The professor, Charles Nesson, has come to the defense of a Boston University graduate student targeted in one of the music industry’s lawsuits. By taking on the case, Nesson hopes to challenge the basis for the suit, and all others like it. (…)
Quelle: AP News vom 16.11.2008
Full post as published by Handakte WebLAWg on November 17, 2008 (boomark / email).
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