RIAA Wants Agreements to Stay Secret 196
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA is opposing Ms. Lindor's request for discovery into the agreements among the record company competitors by which they have agreed to settle and prosecute their cases together, by which she seeks to support her Fourth Affirmative Defense (pdf) alleging that 'The plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have. ...As such, they are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.'"
Tomorrow's Headline (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why did it take this long? (Score:5, Funny)
rj
Unclean Hands (Score:5, Funny)
12. Plaintiffs are guilty of unclean hands.
Apparently the RIAA downloads a lot of porn.
Re:More like: Satan Sues RIAA For Incompetence (Score:1, Funny)
Won't really work out (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Do they... (Score:1, Funny)
The word you want is "is."
Re:You just haven't grown up yet (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Unclean Hands (Score:3, Funny)
-Mike
Re:Big surprise... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:No more mafiaa? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why did it take this long? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wow. (Score:2, Funny)
Like most of your fellow Americans, you work more hours than you should, have no health insurance, are overweight, and never get laid. In your free time you post essays about the threats of "Islamofascism" to Freerepublic.com from your basement.
Re:Why did it take this long? (Score:3, Funny)
And that's just from the guys in marketing, who are annoyed that the legal dept. has taken over their former areas of expertise.
Re:sometimes, it takes balls to be a woman (Score:3, Funny)
What's it all mean, Lenny? (Score:2, Funny)
"The RIAA is opposing Ms. Lindor's request for discovery into the agreements among the record company competitors by which they have agreed to settle and prosecute their cases together, by which she seeks to support her Fourth Affirmative Defense (pdf) alleging that 'The plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have. ...As such, they are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.'"
Gasp...gasp...gasp
You couldn't break it up into smaller sentences, eh?