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Last month we had mentioned how Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson was a
href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081030/0203582685.shtml"taking on/a the RIAA's strategy of
suing music uploaders by claiming that the laws the RIAA was relying on were unconstitutional. That
case ("the Tenenbaum case") started moving forward this week, and the Associated Press had a story
at the beginning of the week, which about fifty people submitted (with some angrily wondering why
we hadn't written about it). We didn't write about it because it was basically the same story we
had covered in October. br /br / However, there is isome/i interesting news in the case, as Ray
Beckerman has a
href="http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/11/tenenbaum-plans-to-call-as-trial.html"
target="_new"posted the proposed witness list put forth by Tenenbaum's legal team/a and it is
iquite/i the star-studded list. It's becoming quite clear (if it wasn't already) that this is a
case where a bunch of different folks in the "copyfighting" realm are converging to confront the
RIAA's legal strategy. The list includes: ul liJohn Perry Barlow (former songwriter for The
Grateful Dead, founder of the EFF, and well known digital thinker) /liliProf. Johan Pouwelse
(technical and scientific director of European research project P2P-Next) /liliProf. Lawrence
Lessig (needs no introduction, I imagine, for folks around here) /liliMatthew Oppenheim (who has a
somewhat a
href="http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/11/practice-tip-inquire-into-role-of.html"murky
relationship/a with the RIAA, at times representing the RIAA, and at other times insisting he does
not represent the RIAA) /liliProf. Terry Fisher (a director of Harvard's Berkman Center and author
of a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5013"Promises to Keep/a, an early book looking at
how the internet was changing the entertainment industry, and how it's business models need to
change) /liliProf. Wendy Seltzer (well known copyfighter, law professor, former staff attorney at
the EFF and founder of the a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/"Chilling Effects/a site)
/liliProf. John Palfrey (Harvard law professor, co-director of the Berkman Center, author of a
href="http://borndigitalbook.com/"Born Digital/a) /liliProf. Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard and Oxford
law professor, co-director of the Berkman Center, author of a
href="http://futureoftheinternet.org/"The Future of the Internet/a) /liliAndrew Grant (former a
href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/2008/11/11/meet-andrew-grant/"antipiracy specialist at
DRM company Macrovision/a) /li/ul That is quite the all-star list. This case is going to be a fun
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