Comments for Internet Law http://allangregory.com Research & Commentary served fresh daily Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:56:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Contact Me by allang http://allangregory.com/contact-me/#comment-16 allang Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:56:56 +0000 http://allangregory.com/?page_id=42#comment-16 Deane, Thanks for the compliments. Unfortunately, I cannot comment on your proposed hypothetical secenario posed in your question, as that would constitute legal advice. What i can point you to is back to the original article - in it I mention that what BMI and ASCAP are doing is completely within their legal rights to do so. There is no legal wrong being committed, civil or criminal. It is a dirty business, and I find it reprehensible myself. But it is not BMI and ASCAP that are in the wrong. It is US copyright law itself that is broken. Thanks again! -Allan <em>please note this response does not constitute legal advice and is not intended as so. Additionally, this response does not constitute an attorney-client relationship</em> Deane,
Thanks for the compliments. Unfortunately, I cannot comment on your proposed hypothetical secenario posed in your question, as that would constitute legal advice. What i can point you to is back to the original article – in it I mention that what BMI and ASCAP are doing is completely within their legal rights to do so. There is no legal wrong being committed, civil or criminal.
It is a dirty business, and I find it reprehensible myself. But it is not BMI and ASCAP that are in the wrong. It is US copyright law itself that is broken.

Thanks again!
-Allan

please note this response does not constitute legal advice and is not intended as so. Additionally, this response does not constitute an attorney-client relationship

]]> Comment on Contact Me by Deane http://allangregory.com/contact-me/#comment-15 Deane Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:19:30 +0000 http://allangregory.com/?page_id=42#comment-15 Thanks for this great post Allan: http://torrentfreak.com/music-copyright-police-ruin-artists-gigs-and-coconut-curry-111008 My question is below? Be well, Deane Thanks for this great post Allan: http://torrentfreak.com/music-copyright-police-ruin-artists-gigs-and-coconut-curry-111008

My question is below?

Be well, Deane

]]> Comment on Contact Me by Deane http://allangregory.com/contact-me/#comment-14 Deane Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:18:05 +0000 http://allangregory.com/?page_id=42#comment-14 Hi Allan, That's a great guest post you wrote on the Sound Cloud Blog.... For a long time I've been wanting to ask about a legal strategy related to this particular situation. I'm wondering what the outcome would be if the restaurant owner had immediately called the police and had the license selling attorney arrested/cited? Can you think of any charge that'd likely stick? Clearly these people who coerce business owners into buying licenses are using illegal tactics that are silencing local musician's right to free speech, as well as misrepresenting the interests of BMI clients. Can that ever become a criminal matter? Or is that only something that can be dealt with as a civil matter? Or could they be arrested for disturbing the peace/ interfering with the normal operation of a place of business? And for the sake of argument, let's assume the Restaurant owner's wife is a high powered attorney who's law firm is currently representing recording artists who are being defrauded in getting paid their royalties by BMI? Let's also assume that this is the same law firm that exposed all the other fraudulent claim letters and bogus legal filings that BMI has been a party to in recent years. If that were true is it at all possible to use a mountain of evidence that often gets referenced on the blog Torrent Freak as a means to file criminal charges against the person trying to force people to buy the license? I mean isn't this what they created anti-racketeering laws? I mean this is what the Mafia used to do and we found ways to make it illegal right? Can't something be set up through state police/attorney generals office to bring these people to justice? Or is the only way to address this based on passing federal, state or city laws that would outlaw this? Thanks for taking the time to let me know your thoughts on this... Be well, Deane Hi Allan, That’s a great guest post you wrote on the Sound Cloud Blog….

For a long time I’ve been wanting to ask about a legal strategy related to this particular situation.

I’m wondering what the outcome would be if the restaurant owner had immediately called the police and had the license selling attorney arrested/cited? Can you think of any charge that’d likely stick? Clearly these people who coerce business owners into buying licenses are using illegal tactics that are silencing local musician’s right to free speech, as well as misrepresenting the interests of BMI clients. Can that ever become a criminal matter? Or is that only something that can be dealt with as a civil matter? Or could they be arrested for disturbing the peace/ interfering with the normal operation of a place of business?

And for the sake of argument, let’s assume the Restaurant owner’s wife is a high powered attorney who’s law firm is currently representing recording artists who are being defrauded in getting paid their royalties by BMI? Let’s also assume that this is the same law firm that exposed all the other fraudulent claim letters and bogus legal filings that BMI has been a party to in recent years. If that were true is it at all possible to use a mountain of evidence that often gets referenced on the blog Torrent Freak as a means to file criminal charges against the person trying to force people to buy the license? I mean isn’t this what they created anti-racketeering laws? I mean this is what the Mafia used to do and we found ways to make it illegal right?

Can’t something be set up through state police/attorney generals office to bring these people to justice?

Or is the only way to address this based on passing federal, state or city laws that would outlaw this?

Thanks for taking the time to let me know your thoughts on this…

Be well, Deane

]]> Comment on The Economics of (Killing) Mass-BitTorrent Lawsuits by SJD http://allangregory.com/economics-of-bittorrent-lawsuits/#comment-3 SJD Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:23:56 +0000 http://allangregory.com/?p=47#comment-3 Thank you - very good article. Among other methods of fighting, I advise my readers to damage the profitability of copyright trolling: 1) educating in order to convince victims not to settle; 2) filing anonymous motions - although the probability that such motions will be granted, it creates additional work for trolls. Impatiently waiting for more good articles, SJD Thank you – very good article. Among other methods of fighting, I advise my readers to damage the profitability of copyright trolling: 1) educating in order to convince victims not to settle; 2) filing anonymous motions – although the probability that such motions will be granted, it creates additional work for trolls.

Impatiently waiting for more good articles,

SJD

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