Copyright Law

In Tenenbaum Court grants motion to compel re lawyers' uploading song files to internet, denies motion to exclude experts, sets 7/27 trial date

By Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman

In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Court has entered an order:

-criticizing defendant's counsel;
-setting firm scheduling dates, including July 20th for a final conference, and July 27th for the trial, and estimating the trial duration at 5 days;
-denying plaintiffs' motion to exclude expert witnesses;
-allowing plaintiffs a deposition of defendant limited to fair use issues;
-allowing defendant written discovery, but no deposition in accordance with defendant's lawyers' statement that they would take no deposition; and
-granting plaintiffs motion to compel discovery into defendant's lawyers' having allegedly uploaded to the internet the song files which are the subject of the lawsuit.

June 16, 2009, Decision denying motion to exclude expert witnesses, granting motion to compel discovery

[Ed. note. I fail to see how Charles Nesson's alleged copyright infringement during the lawsuit is in any way relevant to Joel Tenenbaum's alleged copyright infringement years ago. -R.B.]

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Full post as published by Recording Industry vs The People on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).