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...Tenenbaum faced an uphill legal battle to avoid paying large damages. After he admitted downloading and distributing the 30 music files at issue in the case, the jury was not asked to rule on his liability for the activities. The issue instead became how much he would have...
...Nesson, known for advancing unusual legal arguments, said that the damages awarded would bankrupt Tenenbaum, and that his client would ask Judge Nancy Gertner to reduce the sum to a more "reasonable" level. In the only previous such case to go to trial, Capitol v. Thomas, the plaintiffs were awarded $9,250 per song, an amount raised to $80,000 per song in the re-trial for a total of $1.92 million...
...Tenenbaum's legal team had initially planned to argue that Tenenbaum's actions constituted "fair use" of the copyrighted material, but Gertner rejected the argument early Monday morning before the trial started. The defense then attempted to portray Tenenbaum as a "young child" exploring the boundaries of a digital world, while framing the recording industry's recent struggles as a "coming of age story" that parallels technological advances...
...Problems to Fix Six years on, though, the project is already three years behind schedule, $2 billion over the initial $4.2 billion budget, and the focus of international arbitration and other legal wranglings as TVO, Areva and other companies involved seek compensation for escalating costs. Analysts say many of the problems stem from Areva's impossibly low bid. "Though getting the world's first third-generation reactor completed will give Areva some big advantages over rivals, the Finnish project has cost it a lot in terms of credibility, and a lot of people are looking on saying: 'You mean...
...massively heightened criminality and insecurity and we're also living in situation where, due to failures in the criminal justice system, security services have resorted to extrajudicial killings as way to manage rising crime," says Muthoni Wanyeki, executive director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission. "We might not have legal executions taking place, but we certainly have illegal executions taking place." If Kenya truly wants to end the mental anguish of its prison inmates, it will need to tackle issues bigger than idleness...