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This week , in addition to the 15 Hottest Freshmen, FM brings you a behind-the-scenes look inside Harvard Law School Professor Charles R. Nesson's '60 fight against the RIAA. Writer Christian B. Flow '10 follows the Twittering, marijuana-loving professor on his quest to protect alleged file-sharer Joel Tennenbaum, a college student who is being sued by five major record labels for downloading seven songs and sharing several others in a high school. Yeah, seven songs. Maybe you should close out of LimeWire, that new Emimem song can wait...
...fifth-floor office in Griswold Hall, nestled just behind the Law School’s formidable Langdell library. There’s five of them officially, drawing spring course credit for the 10 to 15 hours a week they are expected to devote to the “RIAA clinical.” But the retinue that composes team Tenenbaum is a bit bigger than that, extending to include the undergraduate Meister, a couple of interested first-years not yet eligible for clinical credit, and even, ostensibly, Nesson’s wife Fern...
...federal conservatism. Nesson, armed with a digital voice recorder and a camera, had no intention of letting his story go overlooked “[I] am sitting twitt[er]ing at the legal deposition of a digital native who is having his digital universe bared to exploration by the RIAA,” he blogged...
...blogging about copyright issues—a sector where, he said, there was a need for a more conservative viewpoint. “When you go on the Internet and you want to read about copyright issues, ninety-nine percent of what you read is ‘the RIAA is evil,’ ‘the record companies are evil,’ ‘copyright law has take over, and it’s unreasonable,’” he said. “And I’ve felt for a long...
...downloaded single a free preview that guarantees the band at least a $50 concert seat sale. Classical composers would have killed for that kind of advertising.As it stands now, the consumer’s pecuniary obligation to the music artists and industry is extremely ambiguous, especially now that the RIAA has taken its suits off the table. On one hand, iTunes is making large inroads into the traditional music retail market and demonstrating that some are still willing to buy their music. On the other hand, the plethora of music blogs, “free sites” like Rhapsody...