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5 Dec 2011, 2:28 am by SHG
While not quite TSA level abusers, the Recording Industry Association of America stands tall among private trade associations for having been handed tin shields by Congress to play music police, beating up on nasty boys and girls across the nation. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 1:22 pm by Jake Linford
The Recording Industry Association of America has objected to ReDigi's characterization of the fair use claim on two primary grounds,** as seen in this cease and desist letter. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 5:02 am
Categorically rejecting the "first sale" doctrine as a safe harbor, the Recording Industry Association of America has sent the ReDigi digital music resale site a letter (PDF, hat tip: Cnet) that effectively demands that the company abandon its business and open its sales records to RIAA's lawyers. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 9:05 pm by Blaine T. Bettinger
Proponents and Critics Proponents of the bills, including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), maintain that the legislation is vital in order to address the widespread copyright and trademark infringement on the Internet. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 3:30 am by David Kravets
Neil Turkewitz, the Recording Industry Association of America vice president, routinely sent messages advocating stringent piracy crackdown measures to dozens of government officials from a wide range of agencies, including the Commerce, Treasury, State, Justice and Homeland Security departments. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 11:26 am by David Kravets
The Motion Picture Association of America and Software & Information Industry Association, whose members include Google, Adobe, McAfee, Oracle and dozens of others, urged the appellate court to rule as it did. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 2:39 pm by Timothy Cornell
     Beginning in 2002, the Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA”) and entertainment companies began suing individuals directly for copyright infringement, threatening them with enormous fines if they did not settle. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 3:33 pm by Sheldon Toplitt
Joel Tenenbaum (Case Nos. 10-1883, 10-1947, 10-2052), the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit last week reinstated the $675,000 judgment awarded the Recording Industry Association of America ("RIAA") in 2009 against Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum in a copyright infringement suit arising from his downloading of 30 copyrighted songs in 2004 from the defunct peer-to-peer network KaZaA (see "TUOL" posts… [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 3:49 pm by David Kravets
The Recording Industry Association of America and Tenenbaum both appealed in what has been the nation’s second RIAA file sharing case to ever reach a jury. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 1:17 pm by Christopher Bird
The Recording Industry Association of America's counter to the potential loss of income from these major back-catalogue works has been to argue that the musicians who created the works were employees rather than independent contractors, thus rendering the albums works-for-hire: in essence, the RIAA is arguing that musicians were hired by the record companies to produce music for them, and that the copyrights in the works were always theirs… [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 2:18 pm
The Recording Industry Association of America has appealed a judge's decision to slash the damages award levied against Jammie Thomas-Rasset for copyright infringement from $1.5 million to $54,000 one month ago. [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 10:31 am by David Kravets
” (.pdf) An investigator with the Recording Industry Association of American and the Motion Picture Association of America verified that the discs were not authorized, according to court documents. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 11:46 am by One LLP
After receiving a cease-and-desist letter with a settlement offer from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Thomas-Rasset refused to settle and made history by becoming the first person accused of online copyright infringement by the RIAA to actually have her case tried before a jury. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 10:08 am by One LLP
For example, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued thousands of alleged online copyright infringers from 2003 to 2008, but abandoned its litigation strategy in 2009 because it appeared to have little, if any, effect on internet piracy. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 12:50 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
  It is backed by the usual industry suspects, including the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and Viacom. [read post]
25 Jul 2011, 8:55 am by Sheldon Toplitt
Jammie Thomas-Rassett (Case No. 06-cv-01497) slashed a $1.5 million jury verdict against a woman who illegally shared copyrighted songs on KaZaA  to $54,000, the Jurist Website reported.Judge Davis granted Jammie Thomas-Rassett's Motion to Amend or Alter the Judgment in her epic struggle against the Recording Industry Association of America ("RIAA") which has involved three trials dating back to 2007 over 24 songs that the 34-year-old… [read post]
23 Jul 2011, 8:21 pm by Doug Isenberg
District Judge Michael Davis follows the third trial in the Recording Industry Association of America’s lawsuit against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first file sharer to take an RIAA lawsuit to a jury trial. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 11:29 am by David Kravets
District Judge Michael Davis follows the third trial in the Recording Industry Association of America’s lawsuit against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first file sharer to take an RIAA lawsuit to a jury trial. [read post]