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  • To: Ga <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ray Beckerman <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [ga] Associated Press Wants RIAA Case Webcast
  • From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:34:28 -0800

All,

  Well the RIAA really stepped in it this time it seems...

  Good stuff here Ray, and also glad to see that the EFF stepped
up to the plate as well...

See:
 http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ NewYorkCountryLawyer
writes "The Associated Press, The New York Times, and other major news
organizations
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-s1m5-ok3ONlPQWlBPIv4MJbLpgD96161GO0
have gone to court to fight the RIAA over its
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/23/224214&tid=123
attempt to thwart a court order which ruled that a hearing in
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/01/index-of-litigation-documents.html#SONY_v_Tenenbaum
SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum could be streamed over the
internet. The news organizations agreed with Judge Gertner, the district
judge who'd granted the order, arguing : 'It is hard to imagine a
hearing more deserving of public scrutiny through the same technological 
medium that is at the heart of this litigation'. As soon as I get a
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html#2036211407143190138
copy of the actual brief I will upload it and link to it. Another amicus
brief opposing the RIAA's attempt to reverse Judge Gertner was filed by
the
Electronic Frontier Foundation and other First Amendment proponents and
is
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/inresonybmgetal/09-1090AmicusCuriaeBrief.pdf
already available online [PDF]."

Regards,

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