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Legal media's future includes Internet broadcasts from American courtrooms

By Kevin OKeefe

As part of excellent Twitter discussion this morning on the future of legal media, Rex Gradeless, a third-year law student at Saint Louis University, pointed out a pending motion seeking permission to Internet broadcast from the courtroom. Professor Charles Nesson and his team of Harvard Law students have filed a motion to broadcast courtroom coverage of an RIAA trial. Nesson is defending Joel Tenenbaum, who has been sued by the RIAA for $1,050,000 for allegedly downloading and making available 7 songs in a shared folder when he was 17 years old. Nesson's reasoning: The judicial process is essentially an exercise in civil discourse. Given the keen interest of the diverse parties following this litigation closely, and the potential learning value of this case to a broad audience beyond, this case presents an ideal instance in which judicial discretion should be exercised under the auspices of the rule to admit Internet to the courtroom...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on December 27, 2008 (boomark / email).