:An opportunity missed to apply 'fair use' to file sharing (RIAA Wins $625,000 for 30 songs)
An opportunity missed to apply 'fair use' to file sharing (RIAA Wins $625,000 for 30 songs) Dec 10, 2009, 07 :32 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (3253 reads) (Other stories by Jon Healey)
"After he admitted on the stand to downloading and sharing 30 songs -- contrary to what he'd claimed in a deposition -- a federal jury found the Boston University graduate liable in August for copyright infringement and ordered him to pay the labels $675,000. Today, the U.S. District Court judge who presided over the case, Nancy Gertner, issued a formal ruling explaining why she had rejected Tenenbaum's "fair use" defense...the defense blew it."
