Intellectual Property Law

Despite Winning $675,000, RIAA Fears Defendant is File Sharing

By David Kravets

The Recording Industry Association of America took the offensive Tuesday against a college student whom a jury concluded in July must pay $675,000 for file sharing 30 songs.

The RIAA asked the Massachusetts judge who presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case to issue an injunction Tuesday preventing the 25-year-old Boston University graduate student from file sharing or assisting others in that endeavor. It was the same tact the RIAA took this summer after it won a whopping $1.92 million verdict against a Minnesota woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, for purloining 24 music tracks on Kazaa.

An injunction, the RIAA wrote (.pdf) the judge who presided over the case, “will prohibit defendant from causing additional irreparable injury to plaintiffs. Finally, given defendant?s conduct, both during the course of this litigation and post-trial, in promoting continued piracy, additional injunctive language forbidding defendant from acting in concert with those committing copyright infringement is appropriate.”

Thomas-Rasset and Tenenbaum are the only two defendants who have gone to trial against the RIAA, which has filed about 30,000-plus lawsuits against individual file sharers in nearly six years. Most all the other defendants had settled out of court for a few thousand dollars.

See Also:

• Jury in RIAA Trial Slaps $2 Million Fine on Jammie Thomas
• Feds Support $1.92 Million RIAA File Sharing Verdict
• Will File-Sharing Case Spawn a Copyright Reform Movement?
• Thomas Seeks New RIAA Trial; Says $1.92 Million Verdict ‘Monstrous …
• Jury Dings File Sharer $675000, RIAA Prevails ?Update
• RIAA Seeks Web Removal of ‘Illegal’ Court Recordings
• RIAA Seeks Up to $150000 a Song in File Sharing Trial

Full post as published by Threat Level on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).