07-23-2003, 03:34 AM
Quote:Boston College and MIT will try to invalidate RIAA subpoenas aimed at forcing them to turn over the ID's of students alleged to have downloaded copyrighted material from school networks.
RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy, "vowed legal action to obtain the information" and said, "These universities have chosen to litigate this in an attempt to deny copyright holders the right so clearly granted in Congress," states a July 22 Boston Globe story here.
Both schools support the rights of copyright holders and would comply with any subpoena that addressed their concerns about the proper notification of students and was filed 'properly' in US District Court in Massachusetts, not in Washington DC, said the Globe.
"MIT of course has a policy of complying with lawfully issued subpoenas," but had been advised by counsel that the subpoena didn't comply with court rules on the proper venue for such a filing and "did not allow MIT time to send any notice as the law requires," its information services director James Bruce is quoted as saying.
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