Boston - A group of 14 news organizations that includes the Associated Press, New York Times Co., Dow Jones and NBC Universal has submitted a "friend of the court" brief urging a judge to allow the trial of an accused music file-swapper to be broadcast on the Internet, the Associated Press reported.

Boston - A federal judge has postponed what would have been the first proceedings in the recording industry's lawsuit campaign against file-swappers to have been streamed live online, agreeing to allow the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals to hear objections from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The RIAA argued in its petition to block the webcast that "the broadcast will be readily subject to editing and manipulation by any reasonable tech-savvy individual," and that the website of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, which would play host to the video stream, contains "propaganda" regarding the case.

Boston - A federal judge has agreed to allow the copyright infringement trial of a college student sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for illegal file-sharing to be webcast live on the Internet. Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum solicited the services of Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson, who, along with his students are representing Nesson and asked the judge to allow the proceedings to be webcast.

Boston - Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson has asked the judge hearing the copyright infringement trial of an alleged music file-swapper that he and his students are defending to allow the proceedings to be webcast live on the Internet, Ars Technica reports.

Boston - A man sued for copyright infringement for allegedly sharing seven songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network is now mounting a countersuit, with the help of a Harvard Law School professor and his cyberlaw students, who are arguing that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is abusing the legal process.