-------- Original Message -------- Subject: recording industry lawsuits Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:07:15 -0400 From: Mary Bridges <mbridges@private> To: 'declan@private' <declan@private> Hi Declan, Yesterday, lawyers for the RIAA and for individuals accused of illegal file-sharing met for a preliminary hearing in the case, Capital Records v. Alaujan, in Boston. I attended the proceeding, which involved an interesting discussion between Judge Gertner, U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, and the attorneys for the RIAA about a brief that the Berkman Center filed in the case. The RIAA representatives took issue with some of the legal arguments in the Berkman Center's amicus brief, which was submitted to raise some of the major legal issues in the case, rather than to argue in favor of either of the parties. The story, "Inside the Courtroom" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/briefings/capital <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/briefings/capital> ), outlines some of the clash points as well as the disparities between the "lawyering" on each side. I thought your readers might be interested. Thanks very much, Mary Bridges Berkman Center for Internet and Society _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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