Copyright Law

RIAA Case Watch List

By Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman

For those of you who have or want to open PACER accounts, and want to help out in the fight against the RIAA's litigation campaign, here is a watch list of cases which I'd appreciate your monitoring whenever you can.

This is not an all-inclusive list of cases we are watching, but just a select list of cases that need extra watching for various reasons.

If anything happens in one of these cases, please email me the *pdf's. This will be a recurring post, in which cases will be added to and subtracted from the list, so bookmark the permalink near the bottom of this post.

The PACER login page is here. To sign up for PACER go here.

Please look only for documents subsequent to April 2, 2009.

Instructions: Log in. Go to district court, then input case number. Request "docket report". If there is new activity, download *pdf file and email to me. (If you're not sure if it's important enough, email me and ask.) Thanks. -R.B.

District, Case no., Case name
Georgia: Northern: 08-3728 SONY BMG Music v. Simms (commenced 12/10/08)
Maryland: 08-2675 UMG Recordings v. Ceesay
Minnesota: 06-1497 Capitol Records v. Thomas
Missouri: Eastern: 06-1708 Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh
Pennsylvania: Western: 07-1515 LaFace Records v. Maddox

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Full post as published by Recording Industry vs The People on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).