Harvard prof tells judge that P2P filesharing is "fair use" - Ars Technica - The Diigo Meta page

• 20 May 09
  

  Matti Narkia

  Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson is headed to federal court this summer to defend an accused file-swapper, and he plans to mount a novel defense: P2P sharing is simply "fair use."

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• 19 May 09
  

  Ershad Rahimi
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  Mihir Damniwala

  Is this for real or just a gimmick to save a soul? In any case, the case is strong and will be debated hard.

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  Scott Vine

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  • If the two remedies are equivalent, and if "individual noncommercial copying
    results in no provable actual harm to the copyright harm holder," then actual
    damages would be zero—and so would statutory damages. "In this context, it would
    be unreasonable to consider the $150,000 per infringement authorized [by the
    law] as an appropriate substitute for the zero actual damages."
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  Elizabeth Koh

  Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson is headed to federal court this summer to defend an accused file-swapper, and he plans to mount a novel defense: P2P sharing is simply "fair use."

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  Nawsher Noor

  Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson is headed to federal court this summer to defend an accused file-swapper, and he plans to mount a novel defense: P2P sharing is simply "fair use". Wholesale copying of music on P2P networks is fair use. Statutory damag

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• 18 May 09
  

  Jonathan Bailey

  112 nesson tenenbaum fairuse filesharing piracy

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