{"id":196184,"date":"2008-05-19T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/19\/riaa-v-thomas-sent-back-for-new-arguments\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T10:05:00","slug":"riaa-v-thomas-sent-back-for-new-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/19\/riaa-v-thomas-sent-back-for-new-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"RIAA v. Thomas Sent Back for New Arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/05\/15\/technology\/webmusic.php\">courts are becoming increasingly restrictive on the scope of RIAA claims<\/a>, and new arguments, and possibly a new jury trial, have been ordered as a result.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the RIAA got a judgment of $220,000.00 from Ms. Davis, but:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>That was the case in the trial last fall of Jammie Thomas of Brainerd. A U.S. district court judge, Michael Davis, instructed jurors that making sound recordings available without permission violates record company copyrights &#8220;regardless of whether actual distribution has been shown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Davis said that may have been a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that he found a 1993 ruling from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Minnesota, that said infringement requires &#8220;an actual dissemination of either copies or phonorecords.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One wonders why he is asking for a re-ruling without either side having brought up this original ruling.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that his grand kid with the iPod told him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that courts are becoming increasingly restrictive on the scope of RIAA claims, and new arguments, and possibly a new jury trial, have been ordered as a result. In this case, the RIAA got a judgment of $220,000.00 from Ms. Davis, but: That was the case in the trial last fall of Jammie Thomas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1134,1109,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-ip","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}