{"id":1320,"date":"2012-02-22T21:24:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T21:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2012-02-22T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T21:32:06","slug":"sopa-ireland-irish-state-is-jumping-to-record-labels-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/sopa-ireland-irish-state-is-jumping-to-record-labels-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"SOPA Ireland: Irish State is dancing to record labels’ tune"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>State enters Appearance on 17th January 2012<\/a>, originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One of the more perplexing questions arising from Sean Sherlock’s efforts to ram a law he, by now, knows to be bad into force is why he hasn’t just taken the time to get things right.<\/p>\n

The screen shot above gives the answer. It is taken from the High Court Search database <\/a>on the Courts service website, Courts.ie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It shows that, after EMI Records [Ireland] Limited & Others sued the Irish State and the Attorney General, the Chief State Solicitor entered an appearance on the 17th January 2012.<\/p>\n

Once a defendant enters an Appearance they have 21 days to enter a defence. Before the StopSOPAIreland.com campaign<\/a>, the plan appears to have been to give EMI the law they wanted and then try to settle the case without entering a defence. Perhaps they would also use public money paying EMI and the other record labels to buy off their claim of damages.<\/p>\n

But the 21 day deadline has now come and gone. There’s still no sign of a defence being entered on the Courts website.<\/p>\n

If you miss the 21 days, your opponents may extend time for a further 21 days. After that they’ll usually issue a motion seeking a kind of undefended win. Even if you rush in with a defence after that, you’ll have run up extra legal costs.<\/p>\n

42 days from the 17th January is the 28th February 2012.<\/p>\n

Ministers Bruton and Sherlock have just under a week to pass the Alternative Statutory Instrument<\/a> sent to them weeks ago by Catherine Murphy and Stephen Donnelly.<\/p>\n

Or they could demonstrate that local offices of UK record labels, with bare handfuls of staff, can dictate laws that damage our country’s reputation and economic wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Not long now to find out which it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After EMI Records [Ireland] Limited & Others sued the Irish State and the Attorney General, the Chief State Solicitor entered an appearance on the 17th January 2012. They have until the 28th February to enter a Defence.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}