Money found to pay expert witnesses
20 Nov 2007 | 07:33 GMT
RIAA will have to face evidence
THE FREE Software Foundation said it has started a fighting fund to provide expert witnesses to fight off the music industry in P2P cases.
For a while now, the RIAA has had its own expert witnesses show up in court and apparently baffle the bewigged ones and the largely unbewigged juries with their ideas.
Now the Free Software Foundation has announced that it has established an " Expert Witness Defense (sic) Fund" to assist defendants in RIAA cases.
The Foundation is raising money to help provide computer expert witnesses to combat RIAA's ongoing lawsuits, and to "defend against the RIAA's attempt to redefine copyright law".
The cash will be used to pay fees and/or expenses of technical expert witnesses, forensic examiners, and other technical consultants assisting individuals named as defendants in non-commercial, peer-to-peer file sharing cases.
Not every case will get cash. It has to be the sort of case which is important to resolve "critical legal issues".
Even then the defendant and a lawyer has to be prepared to fight the case to the bitter end and be putting in money themselves.
The link for donations to the fund is here while there is more here .µ
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