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...fact that Bud and Melanie "opened their home and fortunes" to their adopted brood as proof of their charitable side. But even that admirable domestic picture has come under scrutiny in the murder's wake: Billings, who was arrested in 1989 for adoption fraud, tried earlier this decade to copyright his adopted children's names in a bizarre scheme to extract money from Florida's Department of Children & Family Services. He had also recently thrown two of his teen-aged children out of the house because he didn't like the people they were dating...
Then there's the case of Hitler's own writings. Since the end of World War II, Bavaria has blocked reprints of Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf. The southern state, which owns the copyright, says the ban is the only way to keep the book from being misused by the far right. But some German historians argue that scholarly editions of the book should be legally publishable. "Mein Kampf is a key work about the Nazis' rise to power and an important source of information about the Third Reich," says Horst Möller, a professor at Munich's Institute...
...Despite the setback, Nesson denied that the outcome of Tenenbaum's trial presented a significant setback to the effort to change digital copyright laws...
...Under the 1999 Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act, plaintiffs are awarded from $750 to $30,000 in statutory damages for each infringement, and up to $150,000 for each case of willful infringement. Pre-trial settlements offered by RIAA-appointed lawyers usually range from $3,000 to $5,000. Before the RIAA's litigation campaign ended last December, about 30,000 file-sharers had paid to settle...
...While wryly acknowledging Nesson's appeal, calling him an "eloquent speaker," RIAA attorney Timothy M. Reynolds argued that the "size and scope" of Tenenbaum's file-sharing constituted a willful violation of copyright laws, referring to him throughout the closing statement as simply "the defendant...