The RIAA Strikes Again

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Victoria Pynchon

(image from Modern Humanist)

RIAA Wants Harvard Prof to Take Case Recordings Off the Web

Posted Jul 6, 2009, 03:25 pm CDT
By Sarah Randag

The Recording Industry Association of America says that Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson is violating court orders and privacy laws by posting recordings of pretrial hearings and depositions to his blog and to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society website.

Wired's Threat Level blog provides links to examples of what the RIAA is referring to: a deposition of Joel Tenenbaum, who is being sued by the RIAA and represented by Nesson; a phone conversation between RIAA lawyers and U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner “without the prior consent of participants"; and two expert depositions taken last week. Threat Level notes that Nesson was tweeting the July 1 deposition of copyright expert John Palfrey.

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