Holme Roberts & Owen LLP Trial Team Wins Victory for Recording Industry
06/24/2009
Denver, Colorado, June 24 - Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (HRO) has achieved a significant victory for the major United States record companies last Thursday in a case involving the illegal sharing of music over the Internet. In Capitol Records, Inc. v. Thomas-Rasset, a Minnesota jury awarded the record companies $1.9 million in damages against Defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset, finding that she had willfully infringed the copyrights of the record companies by downloading and distributing 24 copyrighted sound recordings over the KaZaA online file-sharing network. Timothy M. Reynolds and Andrew B. Mohraz of HRO tried the case with co-counsel Matthew J. Oppenheim of The Oppenheim Group LLP. This was HRO’s second trial of the Thomas case. In October 2007 a jury in Duluth, Minnesota awarded the record companies $220,000 in damages against Ms. Thomas-Rasset, but the judge ordered a new trial.
HRO serves as national counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as well as the specific record companies involved in the lawsuit, including Capitol Records, LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, Warner Bros. Records Inc., and UMG Recordings, Inc.
About HRO - Holme Roberts & Owen LLP is an international law firm that was established in 1898 and has approximately 250 lawyers practicing in nine strategically positioned offices throughout the world, including Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, London, Los Angeles, Munich, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco. The firm's lawyers provide a broad spectrum of legal services in virtually every area of the law, including corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, estate planning, commercial litigation, real estate, sports and entertainment, health, employment, tax, government affairs, environmental, and intellectual property.