Wednesday April 02, 2008

University of Maine Students Fighting The RIAA

Students from the University of Maine School of Law are fighting back against the RIAA. Specifically, the student lawyers are seeking an injunction against all RIAA "John Doe" proceedings. Now, if we can just get ALL schools to do the same, we might make some headway.

In Arista v. Does 1-27, the case targeting students at the University of Maine, in which two "John Does" are represented by student attorneys from the University of Maine School of Law's Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, and in which the Magistrate Judge has suggested Rule 11 sanctions against the RIAA lawyers for improper joinder, the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic has filed a Rule 11 motion

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