Industry's Lead Counsel in Music-Sharing Suits Discusses Procedural Aspects of Campaign

The RIAA has filed thousands of legal actions since its campaign against unauthorized file sharers began in 2003. For the past two years, Holme Roberts &amp; Owen ('HRO'), based in Denver, CO, has served as national coordinating counsel for these cases. Late last year, the first trial against a file-sharer resulted in a jury in Duluth, MN, finding the defendant liable for willful infringement and awarding the record company plaintiffs $222,000. HRO partner Richard L. Gabriel is the record industry's lead counsel in that case and in its national campaign. He recently gave an update on the Duluth case and the industry's legal efforts against file sharing in a discussion at his office with Stan Soocher, Associate Professor of Music &amp; Entertainment Industry Studies at the University of Colorado Denver and Editor-in-Chief of <i>Internet Law &amp; Strategy</i>'s sibling newsletter <i>Entertainment Law &amp; Finance</i>.