Law Students Taking on RIAA

I was reading an update of a case in NH in which RIAA has accused a woman in her 50’s of illegally downloading and uploading a number of hard-core rap songs.

Turns out she is getting help from professors and students at Franklin Pierce Law School.  Add them to a growing list of law schools that are getting involved in RIAA cases as a way to both make a difference and as an opportunity to get students the kinds of hands-on experience that can’t be had in a classroom.

ArsTech points out: The Joel Tenenbaum case in Massachusetts is being argued by a Harvard Law professor and his students. The University of Maine School of Law has also taken up RIAA cases.

One of the biggest complaints against RIAA, aside from the overall weak nature of their basic stance, is that they prey on individuals who rarely have the resources or education to defend themselves.  It is very exciting to see students and teachers using the situation as an opportunity  and one can only imagine the chagrin in causes RIAA when they learn that instead of going to court against a lone 50-year-old woman they are facing a school full of students who would like nothing better than to win one for the little guy.

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