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Harvard Law Prof Calls RIAA's CD-R Inquiry 'Immense Triviality'

By soulxtc

Scoffs at RIAA's demands that he disclose details of the "homemade music CD" collection of Joel Tenenbaum, an accused file-sharer, he's representing in court. A few weeks ago I mentioned how an accused file-sharers is going on the offensive against the RIAA by noting that Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson filed an amended counterclaim on behalf of defendant Joel Tenenbaum in Sony BMG Music v. Tenenbaum. The counterclaim fires back against for abuse of process across state and federal jurisdictions.  Nesson is challenging both the constitutionality of the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 and the music labels' use of it against Tenenbaum.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on November 24, 2008 (boomark / email).