Liberation Music, an Australian record label, will pay...
Liberation Music, an Australian record label, will pay Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig an undisclosed amount in a settlement for “harm it caused” when it sued Lessig over his use of a song by the band Phoenix, which Liberation represents,…
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said a Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) news release Thursday (http://bit.ly/N8BqL8). The EFF helped represent Lessig, it said. Lessig countersued on fair-use grounds, it said. “Hopefully this lawsuit and this settlement will send a message to copyright owners to adopt fair takedown practices -- or face the consequences,” said Lessig, in the release. “Liberation Music agrees that Professor Lessig’s use of the Phoenix song ‘Lisztomania’ was both fair use under US law and fair dealing under Australian law,” said the record label, in the release.