RIAA Argument About Streaming To Be Streamed 92
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "You may recall that in an RIAA case, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the district court ruled that an oral argument about the constitutionality of statutory damages could be streamed, and the RIAA has been fighting that with a petition for 'mandamus or prohibition' in the appeals court, which is opposed by the press. Interestingly, it now turns out that the appeals court's oral argument about the streaming will itself be recorded and then streamed. It is hard to imagine how a court which routinely streams its own oral arguments can rule that it is somehow inappropriate for similar oral arguments in the district court to be streamed as well."
Bring it on! (Score:3, Insightful)
The truth shall set you free!
Stream away!
I'd expect the decision to hinge on whether ... (Score:5, Insightful)
... the arguments might have to expose some information that should be under seal.
And I fail to see how anything like that might come up in a constitutionality-of-statutory-damages argument.
But IANAL. (Hi, NYCL!)
Re:*Nelson Muntz* (Score:1, Insightful)
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Re:Recusal/change of venue? (Score:3, Insightful)
Looks pretty much like the TPB trial (Score:4, Insightful)