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RIAA Loses Ability to Appeal in Jammie Thomas Case

By DrewWilson

The Jammie Thomas case has recently took a turn for the worse for the RIAA. Is merely putting a song in a shared folder copyright infringement in the United States? That's what the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was hoping for, but at seemingly the last possible moment, the precedent that would dictate such has slipped through the RIAAs fingers. Ray Beckerman's blog, Recording Industry vs. People, notes that the RIAA has lost the motion for an interlocutory appeal. Such an appeal in this case would have granted the RIAA, essentially, permission to appeal the judge's decision that suggested that he improperly instructed the jurors during the initial Jammie Thomas case to consider that copyrighted song files in a shared directory was considered illegal.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).