San Francisco - A group of ten law professors has filed a friend of the court brief, indicating they believe a judge erred when he told the jury in the file-sharing copyright infringement case against Jammie Thomas that simply the "making available" of songs in a shared folder on a computer constitutes copyright infringement, Wired.com reports. The "making available" claim is a key argument in the record labels' 20,000 copyright lawsuits against file-swappers.

Duluth, Minn. - The federal judge who presided over the first music file-sharing copyright damages award against an individual, when in October a jury ordered Jammie Thomas to pay record labels $220,000 in damages, said this week that he may have erred in his instructions to the jury, and is considering granting a new trial, according to reports.

New York - A federal judge in New York has ruled that a user's "making available" of songs or other copyrighted files using file-sharing software does not in and of itself construe infringement, in what could prove to be a setback in the record industry's legal campaign against such activities, CNET News.com reported.

San Francisco - The U.S. Justice Department has filed a legal brief defending the copyright law that enabled an award of $220,000 in damages to the major record labels, in a copyright infringement case they brought against Jammie Thomas, a Minnesota woman who was found by a jury to have shared 24 songs on a file-sharing network, CNET News.com reports.

Duluth, Minn. - Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman ordered by a jury to pay $220,000 in damages for sharing 24 songs on a file-sharing network, on Monday asked the judge in the case to set aside the verdict.

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital civil liberties advocate, will file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Jammie Thomas' appeal of a jury verdict ordering her to pay $220,000 to the record industry for offering music in a shared folder on a file-sharing network, Wired News reported.

San Francisco - The jury in Jammie Thomas' file-sharing copyright infringement trial took just five minutes to determine her guilt, but then spent several hours "bickering" over the financial penalty she should pay, according to one juror interviewed by Wired News.

Los Angeles - Jammie Thomas, the 30-year-old mother of two who last week was ordered to pay $220,000 in damages in the first of the recording industry's file-sharing lawsuits to go to a jury trial, has announced that she will appeal the verdict.

Duluth, Minn. - The first defendant to face a jury trial in the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) over 20,000-lawsuit strong campaign against illegal file-sharing was found guilty on Thursday, and ordered to pay $220,000 in damages.

Duluth, Minn. - Two days into the first-ever copyright infringement jury trial for someone accused of music file-sharing, the record industry rested its case and the defense called no witnesses, setting up closing arguments for Thursday morning.

Duluth, Minn. - The first actual copyright infringement jury trial for an individual suspected of illegal file-sharing got underway in Minnesota on Tuesday, as 30-year-old mother of two Jammie Thomas appeared in court to answer to allegations she offered 1,702 songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network in 2005.