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September 2009 - www.nwkaraokeguide.<strong>net</strong><br />
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Thomas verdict:<br />
willful infringement,<br />
$1.92 million penalty<br />
Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s federal retrial concluded<br />
today as a jury found her liable for willful<br />
copyright infringement, awarding the record<br />
labels nearly $2 million in damages.<br />
ABy Nate Anderson<br />
new lawyer, a new jury,<br />
and a new trial were<br />
not enough to save<br />
Jammie Thomas-<br />
Rasset. In a repeat<br />
of the verdict<br />
from her first<br />
federal trial, Thomas-Rasset was<br />
found liable for willfully infringing<br />
all 24 copyrights controlled by the<br />
four major record labels at issue in<br />
the case. The jury awarded the labels<br />
damages totaling a whopping $1.92<br />
million. As the dollar amount was<br />
read in court, Thomas-Rasset gasped<br />
and her eyes widened.<br />
Kiwi Camara, Thomas-Rasset's<br />
lead attorney, spoke briefly after the<br />
trial. He told reporters that when<br />
he first heard the $80,000 per song<br />
damage award, he was "angry about<br />
it" and said he had been convinced<br />
that any liability finding would have<br />
been for the minimum amount of $750<br />
per song.<br />
As for Thomas-Rasset, she appeared<br />
shaken by the verdict but<br />
didn't blame the jury. "They did their<br />
job," she said, "I'm not going to hold<br />
it against them." She added, though,<br />
that the recording industry would<br />
never collect the money. "Good luck<br />
trying to get it from me... it's like<br />
squeezing blood from a turnip."<br />
The recording industry lawyers,<br />
though clearly pleased, had no desire<br />
to showboat this one. The massive<br />
damage award, which increased from<br />
$9,250 per song in the first trial to<br />
$80,000, might sounds like a "win,"<br />
but will probably stoke grassroots anger<br />
against the industry's campaign...<br />
if the music business tries to collect.<br />
There are hints that it might not.<br />
Spokesperson Cara Duckworth<br />
of the RIAA, who attended the trial,<br />
told reporters afterwards, "Since day<br />
one we have been willing to settle<br />
this case... and we remain willing<br />
to do so." The industry appears to<br />
be doing everything it can not to appear<br />
vindictive in these cases, though<br />
Duckworth refused to discuss any<br />
details of what a proposed settlement<br />
might look like.<br />
Camara acknowledged the settlement<br />
offer and said that his side would<br />
certainly investigate it, but he made<br />
clear that he intends to file numerous<br />
motions if Thomas-Rasset wants<br />
to continue the fight. Motions on the<br />
constitutionality of such massive damages<br />
and other issues can still be filed<br />
with the judge, and then there's the<br />
entire matter of an appeal.<br />
Thomas-Rasset sounds inclined<br />
to fight on. The case was "one for the<br />
RIAA, not the end of the war," she<br />
said.<br />
As for Camara, he intends to<br />
press ahead with his class-action lawsuit<br />
against the recording industry, in<br />
which he will take up the daunting<br />
task of trying to claw back all the<br />
money that the recording industry<br />
has collected in the course of its legal<br />
campaign to date.<br />
Not good enough<br />
A vigorous defense from Kiwi Camara<br />
and Joe Sibley was not enough<br />
to sway the jury, which had only<br />
to find that a preponderance of the<br />
evidence pointed to Thomas-Rasset.<br />
The evidence clearly pointed to her<br />
machine, even correctly identifying<br />
the MAC address of both her cable<br />
modem and her computer's Ether<strong>net</strong><br />
port. When combined with the facts<br />
about her hard drive replacement (and<br />
her failure to disclose those facts to<br />
the investigators), her "tereastarr"<br />
username, and the new theories that<br />
she offered yesterday for the first<br />
time in more than three years, jurors<br />
clearly remained unconvinced by her<br />
protestations of innocence.<br />
Camara suspects that the jury<br />
thought Thomas-Rasset was a liar and<br />
were "angry about it," thus leading to<br />
the $80,000 per-song damages.<br />
The case is a reminder that in<br />
civil trials, simply raising some doubt<br />
about liability is not enough; lawyers<br />
need to raise lots of doubt to win the<br />
case, and Camara and Sibley were<br />
unable to do so here.<br />
The jury found Thomas-Rasset's<br />
conduct to be willful, which means<br />
that statutory damages under the<br />
Copyright Act can range from $750<br />
per infringement up to $150,000. In<br />
his closing statement, defense lawyer<br />
Joe Sibley made clear that even the<br />
minimum award would run $18,000<br />
(24 songs x $750 = $18,000), an amount<br />
that he said was unfair and crippling to<br />
Thomas-Rasset. The jury decided that<br />
the per-song penalty would be $80,000,<br />
for a total damage award of $1.92 million,<br />
over $1.7 million more than the<br />
award in her first trial.
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