RIAA’s ‘Misspeaking’ May Have Affected Verdict

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “David Kravetz of Wired.com covered last year’s Capitol v. Thomas trial gavel-to-gavel. It’s worth noting, soon after, his essay saying that the RIAA’s recent statement — that Sony’s top litigation lawyer ‘misspoke’ during the trial. She said that making a copy from one’s own cd is ’stealing’, which

(in his words) may have caused a major miscarriage of justice. Wired further points out that later on in the trial, during the RIAA’s examination of Ms. Thomas, ‘On the hard

drive she [turned] by were thousands of songs Thomas said she ripped from her CDs. The RIAA’s Gabriel suggested to jurors that copying one’s purchased music was a violation of the Copyright Act. Gabriel, […]

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