{"id":3288,"date":"2009-03-05T22:13:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T02:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2009\/03\/05\/oh-christmas-tree\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T22:13:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T02:13:28","slug":"oh-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2009\/03\/05\/oh-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first such ruling in the federal judiciary in M<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.dr-pepper.de\/images\/xp_boot\/MusicPirate.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dr-pepper.de\/images\/xp_boot\/MusicPirate.jpg\" height=\"289\" width=\"385\" \/>assachusetts, a judge in Boston agreed yesterday to allow video cameras in the courtroom to provide live Internet coverage of a high-interest lawsuit against a Boston University graduate student accused of downloading music illegally.<\/p>\n<p>US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner said she will allow Courtroom View Network &#8211; a New York-based company that webcasts trials, primarily in state courts &#8211; to chronicle a key hearing Jan. 22 in the suit against the student, Joel Tenenbaum, by a group that represents the US recording industry.<\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/01\/15\/webcam_to_cover_music_suit\/?page=1\">Boston<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/01\/15\/webcam_to_cover_music_suit\/?page=1\">Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Hitting a little close to home. We actually heard about this case when we were at the courthouse on Tuesday.&nbsp; We were in an Appelate Division courtroom with a group of Asian college students getting a tour of the joint. They were so disinterested that several fell sound asleep during the demonstration and explanation, including the kid sitting in the Judge&#8217;s bench! We were mortified.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>This case obviously deserves careful attention. According to our docent Tuesday, the RIAA objected to the judge&#8217;s decision to allow a netcast of the proceedings, and both sides are preparing to argue the issue. Should the netcasting proceed, we will endeavor to give readers a head&#8217;s up.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=0d16b79d-a916-43bf-a15f-ee519a6d6e18\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first such ruling in the federal judiciary in Massachusetts, a judge in Boston agreed yesterday to allow video cameras in the courtroom to provide live Internet coverage of a high-interest lawsuit against a Boston University graduate student accused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2009\/03\/05\/oh-christmas-tree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14763],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-future"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}