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ABA Judges' Journal Article: "Large Recording Companies vs. The Defenseless : Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations"

By Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman

The Judges' Journal, the quarterly publication of the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association, invited the author of this blog to write an article for its "Equal Access to Justice" edition.

I of course accepted the invitation, and submitted an article, entitled "Large Recording Companies vs. The Defenseless : Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations". In it I describe the RIAA litigation process and the challenge it represents to our adversarial system of justice, and make 15 hopefully constructive suggestions as to how the Courts can help to level the playing field in these cases.

The article has now been published, and is available in the current edition of The Judges' Journal.

The ABA has graciously granted permission to reprint the article, for the benefit of those who are not recipients of The Judges' Journal.

Without further ado, here it is:

Beckerman, Ray, "Large Recording Companies vs. The Defenseless : Some Common Sense Solutions to the Challenges of the RIAA Litigations", The Judges Journal, American Bar Association, Summer 2008 Edition (Reprinted by Permission of the copyright owner, The American Bar Association)

[Ed. note. I'm also trying to get an HTML version. I made one myself but it didn't look good. Reziac from Slashdot was kind enough to provide this one, which while not perfect is a lot better than mine. -R.B.]

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Full post as published by Recording Industry vs The People on July 29, 2008 (boomark / email).