Lawyer to RIAA: Sue the First Twins for copyright violations!

[Cheese Sandwich]

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Lawyer to RIAA: Sue the First Twins for copyright violations!

Mitchell Silverman, an attorney in Florida, noticed in a recent news-story that GW Bush's twin daughters presented him with a mix CD of exercise music for Father's Day. Since the record industry maintains that making and distributing mix CDs is a copyright infringement, Silverman sent their legal offices a letter on letterhead asking them to sue the first twins for "stealing music."

As you will see from the attached article from today’s The Miami Herald, President George W. Bush’s daughters made him a presumably illegal compilation CD, a so-called “mix CD,” as a Father’s Day present. As the article, at <link> states, “[President] Bush's twin daughters, gave him [as a Father’s Day present] a CD they had made for him to listen to while exercising.”

This is a serious violation of copyright. As you know, whichever of your member organizations that are right-holders for the copied musical works may be entitled to statutory damages of $150,000.00 per musical work copied.

I hope and expect that you at the RIAA will display the same vigor in prosecuting this matter and protecting the rights of your rights-holders that it has displayed in enforcing those rights against other alleged violators.

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is this a joke?

[Cheese Sandwich]

is this a joke?

It's actually posted at a blog website, and it does link to a Miami Herald news article that confirms the CD gift. Other than that, I don't know.

I'll gladly PM the link to anybody who requests it.

[smoker]

Mitchell Silverman, an attorney in Florida, noticed in a recent news-story that GW Bush's twin daughters presented him with a mix CD of exercise music for Father's Day

so, some 'want-a-name' attorney read in a news story that the evil-twins were making illegal cds. if he had an actual copy, and could prove the guilty party responsible, well, there might, remotely, be something in this.

i just hope the music is good enough to distract the us president from anymore military endeavours!

[Adamant1988]

so, some 'want-a-name' attorney read in a news story that the evil-twins were making illegal cds. if he had an actual copy, and could prove the guilty party responsible, well, there might, remotely, be something in this.

i just hope the music is good enough to distract the us president from anymore military endeavours!

You *really* just missed the point. The entire idea was to get the RIAA to sue the Bush twins for copyright infringment, which they won't do. It's kind of an exercise in showing that the RIAA isn't really believing what they say.

[smoker]

You *really* just missed the point. The entire idea was to get the RIAA to sue the Bush twins for copyright infringment, which they won't do. It's kind of an exercise in showing that the RIAA isn't really believing what they say.

i think you're missing the point, the point is, there seems to be no evidence, just because some lawyer read somewhere that someone allegedly did something illegal, does not mean that suddenly lawsuits are going to be flying around.

if there is evidence, then fair enough, the riaa should treat all violaters the same!

[Adamant1988]

i think you're missing the point, the point is, there seems to be no evidence, just because some lawyer read somewhere that someone allegedly did something illegal, does not mean that suddenly lawsuits are going to be flying around.

if there is evidence, then fair enough, the riaa should treat all violaters the same!

The RIAA often has less evidence than that when they go to court. They have no issue suing you if you have a WiFi network and someone else cracks it and downloads music on your connection. The fact that this news article blatantly says they presented a MixCD would be more than enough for the RIAA under normal circumstances.