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Jul 14, 2010 by News Gatherer
Tenenbaum and lawyers for the RIAA in the list may appeal the decision of Judge Gertner. U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner in error by both parties in the case – and Joel Tenenbaum Recording Industry Association of America – when he crossed the price of $ 675,000, a federal jury had awarded. In a 62-page decision, United States
The reduction follows a path similar to another case in which the copying of music online, where Rasset Jammie Thomas was fined almost $ 2,000,000 to $ 54,000 reduced by a federal judge in Minnesota.
"I can not imagine a plausible justification for the difference between the level of damage in cases of pubic benefits and compensation in this case," Judge Gertner said. "Jury Prize, in this case also appears in the light of the enormous damage generally imposed on restaurants, bars and other businesses that play copyrighted songs in their establishments, without having acquired the appropriate licenses, he wrote. 'The disparity strongly suggests that the jury's decision $ 675,000 is grossly excessive and arbitrary "..
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