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RIAA Defendant Enlists Harvard Law Prof, Students
RIAA Defendant Enlists Harvard Law Prof, Students
By Nate Anderson
Published: October 29, 2008 - 11:43AM CT
Ars Technica
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20081029-riaa-defendant-enlists-harvard-law-prof-students.html>
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Joel Tenenbaum, accused in August 2007 of swapping seven songs on KaZaA,
is mounting an unusual defense. First representing himself, Tenenbaum has
now attracted the help of a Harvard Law professor and a class of cyberlaw
students, and he is intent on taking the case to a trial. In a
counterclaim against the recording industry, Tenenbaum's legal team argues
that the entire RIAA "onslaught" is unconstitutional and that federal
judges should impose serious limits on the group's legal campaign.
Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law (a founder of the prestigious
Berkman Center for Internet & Society) has agreed to help Tenenbaum, and
he has enlisted the help of students in his Fall 2008 course, "CyberOne:
Law in the Court of Public Opinion." The group wants to do more than help
Tenenbaum out of a tough spot; they want to challenge the underpinnings of
the entire lawsuit campaign against the "born-digital generation."
And if sensationalist language could win court cases, this one would be
over. Nesson and his students defended their claims this week in a court
filing in which they argued that the RIAA's lawsuits had "the ulterior
purposes of creating an urban legend so frightening to children using
computers, and so frightening to parents and teachers of students using
computers, that they will somehow reverse the tide of the digital future."
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