Harvard Law Professor Urges University to Fight RIAA

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Distinguished Harvard University Law School Professor Charles Nesson has called upon Harvard University to fight back against the RIAA and stand up for its students, writing 'Seeking to outsource its enforcement costs, the RIAA asks universities to point fingers at their students, to filter their Internet access, and to pass along notices of claimed copyright infringement. But these responses distort the University's educational mission. ...[W]e should be assisting our students both by explaining the law and by resisting the subpoenas that the RIAA serves upon us. We should be deploying our clinical legal student training programs to defend our targeted students.'"

RIAA Business Plan

[Foehg]

Speaking of the RIAA, I think they've been cribbing business plans from the ad for wall-size maps on the back of my granola. It says "Buy USA at retail price, get the World Free!"

Re:No no no!

[ozmanjusri]

Ignnorance is strength.

Tough guy, huh?

Re:Authority

[Joebert]

so they do it for all the wrong reasons and they learn nothing from it?

Not really, they learn why they should have went to Harvard.

Re:Interesting possibilities

[Opportunist]

It gets better. "Find a bunch of grannies without a computer, prepare a countersuit and find out just how much money you can pump out of the *AA."

Re:wow

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Just to emphasise that Nesson is a Professor of law, not a laywer, so we don't have a contridiction in terms here.

Re:"Defenseless" is no excuse for infringement

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm, guilty until proven innocent makes it easy. I need to get in on this.

Music, been done.

Linux, been done.

Dog Poop hasn't been done yet.

You have let your dog poop in my yard. I have experts that can confirm this.

If you pay me $3500 in fees, admit your guilt, and promise to never let your dog poop in my yard again, I will forgive any past pooping offenses.

If not, I demand you ship your dog to my experts at your expense for examination to prove it was your dog that poopped in my yard. If you do not produce your dog, I will demand the judge find you in contempt of court and imprison you. I also demand any family members that live with in 100 miles of you produce their dogs for examination.

Lame excuses like you do not own a dog, or being in the same room with a dog would kill you will not go over well with the judge. The fact that you and your dog live 3000 miles from my yard is not of my concern.

Please make checks payable to the Dog Poop Association of America (DPAA), Washington DC.