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Record Labels Continue 'Negotiating Through Lawsuit'
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| And yet... the process continues. While Warner Music has done a bunch of
| these sue-to-negotiate deals, EMI seems to be involved in many of the more
| recent lawsuits of this nature. Its latest target is GrooveShark, one of a
| bunch of sites that lets you listen to streaming music online. Apparently the
| two companies had been negotiating terms... and then suddenly EMI sued. Par
| for the course. In the meantime, if you're a music startup hoping to do a
| licensing deal with a major label, make sure you have some litigators on your
| legal team. You're going to need them.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090618/0011185272.shtml
Court orders Jammie Thomas to pay RIAA $1.92 million
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| Jammie Thomas-Rasset was found guilty of willful copyright infringement on
| Thursday in a Minneapolis federal court and must pay the recording industry
| $1.92 million.
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| In a surprise decision, the jury imposed damages against Thomas-Rasset, who
| was originally accused to sharing more than 1,700 songs, at a whopping
| $80,000 for each of the 24 songs she was ultimately found guilty of illegally
| sharing..
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10268199-93.html
RIAA lawyers toss "a skunk in the jury box," apologize
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| Recording industry lawyers dodged a bullet today after the judge in the
| Jammie Thomas-Rasset retrial threatened to throw out the complete testimony
| of an important expert witness. Not disclosing new information to opposing
| counsel makes federal judges very, very grumpy.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/riaa-lawyers-toss-a-skunk-in-the-jury-box-apologize.ars
Recent:
RIAA Sued For Racketeering Yet Again
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| A few people have filed lawsuits against the RIAA for racketeering in the
| past, though these charges have always been dismissed. In one such case,
| where the filed charges were dismissed over the summer, new claims were filed
| again charging the RIAA with racketeering for extortion, mail fraud and wire
| fraud in its ongoing efforts involving weakly supported threats against
| alleged file sharers demanding money to avoid being sued.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081121/1203512916.shtml
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