defending its members' copyright interests.
"In an Arizona case against a defendant who has no legal
representation, Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA is now arguing -
contrary to its lawyers' statements to the United States Supreme
Court in 2005 MGM v. Grokster - that the defendant's ripping of
personal MP3 copies onto his computer is a copyright infringement.
At page 15 of its brief (PDF) it states the following: 'It is
undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies... Virtually
all of the sound recordings... are in the ".mp3" format for his and
his wife's use... Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings
into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder,
they are no longer the authorized copies..."
representation, Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA is now arguing -
contrary to its lawyers' statements to the United States Supreme
Court in 2005 MGM v. Grokster - that the defendant's ripping of
personal MP3 copies onto his computer is a copyright infringement.
At page 15 of its brief (PDF) it states the following: 'It is
undisputed that Defendant possessed unauthorized copies... Virtually
all of the sound recordings... are in the ".mp3" format for his and
his wife's use... Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings
into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder,
they are no longer the authorized copies..."
The brief is at: www. ilrweb.com/
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