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First Federal Courtroom Webcast Postponed

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

The nation's first live steaming webcast of federal trial court action -- a pretrial hearing in a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing copyright case -? has been postponed.

A federal judge on Tuesday stayed(.pdf) enforcement of her ruling that set the stage for the live broadcast to stream Thursday.

Among other things, U.S. District Judge court Nancy Gertner agreed with the RIAA that the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals should review her precedent-setting ruling, which would allow the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University to livecast the hearing.

The hearing concerns a Boston University student challenging the RIAA's copyright infringement case against him.

Here is a link to our Tuesday storyon the RIAA's arguments opposing the stream. Among other things, the RIAA claims that the video stream could be "manipulated" and that the Berkman Center's site is filled with "propaganda" about the case.

The hearing was continued until Feb. 24.

REPORTER'S NOTE: The link to the ruling has now been corrected.

Image: Modernhumorist.com

See Also:

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• In Internet First, RIAA File Sharing Hearing to Be Webcast ...
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• RIAA Thomas Appeal Denied; Retrial Likely to Set New Copyright ...
• RIAA, MPAA Converging on Political Conventions
• Imagine RIAA, MPAA in Control of Handbag Industry
• Universities Baffled By Massive Surge In RIAA Copyright Notices ...
• RIAA Qualifies Statement on No New Copyright Lawsuits
• RIAA Rips Defendant in Nation's First Filesharing Jury Trial ...
• Judge Orders Legal Fees in RIAA v Andersen

Full post as published by Threat Level on January 20, 2009 (boomark / email).