[LINK] streaming a court argument on the legality of streaming -- what the?

[Jan Whitaker]

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "You may recall that in an RIAA case, 
SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the district court ruled that an oral 
argument about the constitutionality of statutory damages could be 
streamed, and the RIAA has been fighting that with a petition for 
'mandamus or prohibition' in the appeals court, which is opposed by 
the press. Interestingly, it now turns out that the appeals court's 
oral argument about the streaming will itself be recorded and then 
streamed. It is hard to imagine how a court which routinely streams 
its own oral arguments can rule that it is somehow inappropriate for 
similar oral arguments in the district court to be streamed as well."

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