NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's litigation campaign has met resistance from the academic community before, but now it's been taken to a whole new level : the defense of RIAA victims who are not part of the college community at all. First the University of Oregon lashed out on behalf of its students, then it was the University of Maine's Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic on behalf of its undergrads. But now the University of San Francisco School of Law has taken the fight a giant step further. Its Intellectual Property Law Clinic's attorneys-in-training, working under the supervision of law professors, are going to bat against the RIAA by helping outside lawyers to defend their clients, pro bono. They reached out 3000 miles to get involved in Elektra v. Torres and Maverick v. Chowdhury, two cases going on in Brooklyn, NY, against non-college defendants. Two of the law students in the USF's legal program assisted in the research and preparation of briefs in these cases opposing the RIAA's motion to dismiss the defendants' counterclaims. Thousands of honor students throughout United States law schools.... most of them digital natives who actually understand the legal fallacies and technological missteps the RIAA is taking, and who can't wait to expose them... sounds like a pretty good resource for the poor and middle class people hanging on trying to defend these cases." Link to Original Source
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