Help me here someone: So if an artist exercises the right to own their music again, who gets the revenues for physical sales of material already on shelves? Surely using the RIAA logic, it's the music and not the media that is governed by copyright? Maybe the volume is too low to consider, but there's a lot of back catalogue stuff out there.

Sure, if they were not suing the city then I agree - where this case looses all credibility for me is that they're not suing the individuals but the city. As someone else stated - if I'm at work and I view something offensive to a co-worker, I'm the one at fault, not my employer.

Following the link to "Will Virgin allow on board exploding Sony batteries in IBM ThinkPads?" I found something weird about the story. While I don't contest the Thinkpad burned up, I think the story surrounding the incident is a little difficult to believe. Check out the story and explain to me this:

          "I spoke to the laptop owner (while getting close for some pictures!) and he said he his laptop was an IBM"...

There is absolutely no one in the photos or anywhere around, making me think these are stock or airport photos taken after the incident, not from an opportunist.

      "Notice the circular hotspot on the floor where the thing actually burned."...

Come on, it's from the base of the divider stand. Also note that the chair has been pulled back.

Looks more like someone had a problem while sitting in the waiting area not running off a plane!

Based on that I think we need to question the entire story.