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Court grants RIAA motion to compel discovery and for attorneys fees in Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh

By Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman

!--google_ad_section_start--pIn a href="http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/01/index-of-litigation-documents.html#Atlantic_v_Raleigh"Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh/a, a St. Louis, Missouri, case, the Court has granted the RIAA's motion to compel further interrogatory answers, and agreed that the RIAA should be entitled to an award of attorneys fees.br /br /a href="http://beckermanlegal.com/pdf/?file=/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/atlantic_raleigh_081215OrderGrantPltffsMotCompel.pdf"December 15, 2008, Order granting motion to compel further interrogatory responses and attorneys fees/abr /br /i[Ed. note. The awarding of attorneys fees would be a bit much. Considering the economic imbalance that already exists, that would be quite chilling. I hope the Court reconsiders that. -R.B.]/ibr /br /!--google_ad_section_end--!--a href="http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename="*/a--!--p* Document published online at a href="http://ilrweb.com"Internet Law Regulation/a--!--pCommentary discussion:pa href=""/a--!--pcentera href=""img src="http://images.slashdot.org/sdit4n.png"/a/center--!--center pa href="http://www.digg.com"img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button.gif" width="91" height="17" alt="Digg!" //a/center--!--pcentera href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/riaa"img src="http://ohioelection2004.com/ImageHost/riaaexpertwitnessdefensefunddonate3.PNG" width=150/a/center--brbrfont size="-2"Keywords: lawyer digital copyright law online internet law legal download upload peer to peer p2p file sharing filesharing music movies indie independent label freeculture creative commons pop/rock artists riaa independent mp3 cd favorite songs intellectual property portable music player/font!--SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR LINDOR CASE ONLY--!--centerTo contribute to Marie Lindor's legal defense, see below.form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"input type="hidden" name="business" value="wraymond@hotmail.com"input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Marie Lindor legal Defense Fund (wraymond@hotmail.com)"input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_promo_code" value=""input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_product_category" value=""input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_shipping_method" value=""input type="hidden" name="buyer_credit_user_address_change" value=""input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0"input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0"input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US"input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-DonationsBF"input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"br /img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"/form/centerbrThe above donation button links to a PayPal account established by Marie Lindor's family for people who may wish to make financial contributions to Ms. Lindor's legal defense in a href="http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/01/index-of-litigation-documents.html#UMG_v_Lindor"UMG v. Lindor/a. Contributions are not tax deductible.--

Full post as published by Recording Industry vs The People on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).