October 25th, 2008
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Remember poor Jammie Thomas Jammie Thomas is off the hook—at least for the time being. Judge Michael J. Davis has overturned a federal jury's copyright infringement verdict and award of $222,000 in damages to the RIAA. The verdict was handed down last October after a three-day trial and a few hours of deliberations. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...-rejected.html It gets better
...What the RIAA fails to note is that the landscape has changed, not only since Maverick v. Harper was originally filed in 2007, but in the weeks since the judge's $200-per-song award was made. Just days after the RIAA rejected that award, a federal judge in Minnesota overturned the $222,000 verdict against Jammie Thomas, citing an incorrect jury instruction on the "making available" issue... RIAA now wants to avoid trial in innocent infringement case |