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Creative sentencing term for blogger who leaked GNR creativity

By Douglas A. Berman

This Wired story, headlined "Guns N? Roses Uploader Gets House Arrest, Will Make Anti-Piracy Ad," notes the creative sentencing term imposed in a case about who gets access to creativity: A Los Angeles man who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of uploading pre-release Guns N? Roses tracks was handed one year probation and two months? home confinement Tuesday after agreeing to cooperate with the Recording Industry Association of America to produce an anti-piracy message. Kevin Cogill was arrested last summer at gunpoint and charged with uploading nine tracks of the Chinese Democracy album to his music site ? antiquiet.com. The album, which cost millions and took 17 years to complete, was released in November and reached No. 3 in the charts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).