Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Tenenbaum plans to call as trial witnesses Johan Pouwelse, Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain, John Perry Barlow, and others

In SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the defendant's witness includes, among others:

-John Perry Barlow (former songwriter for The Grateful Dead)

-Prof. Johan Pouwelse (technical and scientific director of European research project P2P-Next)

-Prof. Lawrence Lessig

-Matthew Oppenheim

-Prof. Terry Fisher

-Prof. Wendy Seltzer

-Prof. John Palfrey

-Prof. Jonathan Zittrain

-Andrew Grant (former antipiracy specialist at Macrovision)

Defendant's PreTrial Memorandum

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