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9 Jul 2010, 12:59 pm by Ben Sheffner
It also protects ordinary people like Joel Tenenbaum.Judge Gertner's opinion thus differs significantly from that of Judge Michael Davis in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case, which reduced an award of copyright statutory damages on common law remittitur (i.e., non-constitutional) grounds.Keep in mind that while the reduced award of $67,500 -- $2,250 multiplied by the 30 songs on which the record labels sought damages -- is certainly better from Tenenbaum's… [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 7:34 am
Minnesota's top federal judge, Michael Davis, certainly seems like a man who just wants the (in)famous Jammie Thomas-Rasset peer-to-peer file-sharing case on his docket to just go away. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 11:51 am by Ben Sheffner
The major record labels and Jammie Thomas-Rasset don't agree on much, but they have come together in perfect harmony to tell the court: Hell no, we won't settle. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 3:33 pm by David Kravets
Thomas-Rasset testifying during her first 2007 trial. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 11:50 am by Ben Sheffner
In the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case, Judge Michael Davis has appointed a special master to help facilitate settlement. [read post]
12 Jun 2010, 12:20 am by pete.black@gmail.com (Peter Black)
While few copyright cases go to trial, copyright holders like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) don’t hesitate to seek stratospheric damage awards when they do, as in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset filesharing case.These worlds don’t match. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 12:21 pm by Guest Blogger
While few copyright cases go to trial, copyright holders like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) don’t hesitate to seek stratospheric damage awards when they do, as in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset filesharing case.These worlds don’t match. [read post]
27 May 2010, 8:43 am by Ben Sheffner
In that case, the Second Circuit upheld the district court's finding of innocent infringement, based on the defendants' lack of sophistication and the fact that the infringing goods they sold in their stores lacked notices.Harper is represented by Kiwi Camara, who represented accused peer-to-peer defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset in her second trial. [read post]
20 Mar 2010, 2:45 pm by Ben Sheffner
The ruling could help the record label plaintiffs in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset and Joel Tenenbaum cases, should the courts ever reach the constitutional challenges to the jury verdicts. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 2:07 am by Andres
” This means that we might see some of the most outrageous American copyright enforcement damages, such as the Jammie Thomas-Rasset and Joel Tenenbaum cases, exported to jurisdictions where damages are nowhere near what is proposed. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 9:38 am by Ben Sheffner
The third trial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, whom two separate juries have found liable for using the KazAa peer-to-peer network to download and "share" music, has been set for October 4, 2010, in Minneapolis. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 12:26 pm by Narine Bagdassarian
  Nearly a year ago, Jammie Thomas-Rasset was ordered to pay $1.92 million by a jury for downloading 24 songs…$80,000 per download! [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 10:18 am by Betsy McKenzie
Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers told Cnet and RIAA that they wanted the damages to be zero. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 9:29 pm by Ben Sheffner
But Judge Michael Davis' recent order in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case (which Tenenbaum relies on as authority for other points) explicitly rejected such a calculation as "inadequate" while reducing the jury's award in that case from $80,000 to $2,250 per work. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 12:05 am by Jonathan Bailey
Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Remarkable Third Trial Coming for RIAA’s First P2P Defendant First off today, the record labels have submitted a rejection of the judge’s reduced damages award in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case and have set the stage for a truncated third trial solely on the issue of damages. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 8:34 pm by Ben Sheffner
"And, in the wake of the court in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case reducing the award there on common-law remittitur grounds, the labels argue strenuously that the court does not have the authority to reduce a jury's award that falls within the range set by Congress: "a district judge that superimposes his or her own subjective view of the 'right' amount of statutory damages usurps the role of the jury in direct violation of the Seventh Amendment and… [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 6:14 pm by Ben Sheffner
The record label plaintiffs have opted for a third trial against Jammie Thomas-Rasset rather than accept the court's decision to reduce the jury's award from $1.92 million to $54,000. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 9:12 am by Ben Sheffner
Last summer, when Kiwi Camara and Joe Sibley took over the defense of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, they vowed not only to get her off the hook, but to launch a counter-attack to "get the $100 million that [the labels] stole" in the course of their litigation campaign against individual peer-to-peer users. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 5:13 am by Walter Olson
Administration chooses to unveil new press-lenders-to-serve-minorities campaign at Jesse Jackson event [N.Y.Times] Remembering pinball prohibition [Popular Mechanics back in August, Radley Balko] Judge cuts "shocking", "monstrous" $2 million award to $54,000 in Jammie Thomas-Rasset music-download suit [AmLaw Litigation Daily, earlier] Naughty librarians: "Offline Book 'Lending' Costs US Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion" [Eric Hellman]… [read post]