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Judge: 'Harvard Prof Can Broadcast RIAA Trial on the Internet'

By soulxtc

Acknowledges new Internet Generation, that does not read newspapers or watch the evening news, but "gets its information largely, if not almost exclusively, over the internet," also asking why RIAA objects to informing the public about the case since it claims that's what file-sharing lawsuits are all about - gotcha! A few weeks ago I reported how Harvard Professor Charles Nesson and his team of Harvard Law students filed a motion to broadcast courtroom coverage of a file-sharing trial on the Internet, which is traditionally prohibited. Nesson is defending Joel Tenenbaum, who has been sued by the RIAA for $1,050,000 for allegedly downloading making available 7 songs in a shared folder when he was 17 years old. Now it has been recently announced that District Court Judge Nancy Gertner, the judge hearing the case between Tenenbaum?s Harvard Law legal team vs. the RIAA, has decided to authorize Courtroom View Network (CVN) to broadcast the trial over the Internet. "In many ways, this case is about the so-called Internet Generation -- the generation that has grown up with computer technology in general, and the internet in particular, as commonplace," reads Judge Gertner's opinion.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).