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In a case in Brooklyn, Virgin Records v. Young, the plaintiffs' default judgment has been vacated, and the defendant has retained counsel.
p2pnet news view RIAA | P2P:- Patti Santangelo is a wonderful person and I’m really glad for her and two of her five children, Michelle and Bobby, that the RIAA’s vicious war against them is now all-but over.
They were the first family to really put up a fight against Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG and their RIAA and it could be said they paved the way for many, if not most, of other RIAA victims who, inspired by her example, decided they weren’t going to take it either.
Tanya Andersen is now famous as the woman who took the RIAA on and won. And as she told me this morning, that might never have happened had it not been for Patti’s example.
“Her case was the one that got me going,” Tanya said. “When the RIAA came after me, I didn’t know anything and it was only by reading about Patti that I was able to get any information.
Plaintiffs have requested permission to file surreply papers, further objecting to the deposition of Matthew Oppenheim, in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum.
The papers dispute that Oppenheim should be deposed as the representative of a corporate party, saying that he is only an attorney, even though he has presented himself to various Judges as "the principal" of the record companies, "the only person with settlement authority", "the client", and "the client representative".
In a North Carolina case which has been going on for awhile, first as LaFace Records v. Does 1-38, then as SONY BMG Music v. Doe, but which I will now begin covering as SONY BMG Music v. Moursy, the RIAA and Safenet have been named as additional defendants on counterclaims, and the plaintiffs have moved to dismissed the counterclaims.
We were most pleased to see this excellent column by ZDNet's Richard Koman supporting our plea for legislation to prevent this disturbing trend.
I can't quite figure out what is going on in the case of Capitol Records v. Lashaana Straw in Boston. This is the case in which the defendant, unrepresented by counsel, had entered into a "settlement" with the RIAA, but Judge Gertner rejected the settlement due to the fact that it had called for a judgment to be entered which was for twice the amount of the settlement.
Now, for reasons which are not apparent, it appears that an attorney from Milton, Massachusetts, entered a non-electronically-filed "appearance" in in the case in late January.

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