RIAA Forced to Pay Defendant Lawyer Fees
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The RIAA has been ordered to pay over $68,000 in attorney fees for an Oklahoma woman who won a piracy case against the music industry organization in July of last year.
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Calling the imposition of tremendously increased royalty fees on music webcasters "arbitrary and capricious," a group of organizations and companies with streaming radio interests, including the Digital Music Association, AccuRadio, and National Public Radio, filed a petition for an emergency stay before the US Court of Appeals in D.C., of the order imposing new performance royalty fees on online streaming music providers.
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THE firm behind leading file-swapping network Kazaa is being sued by the record industry in the latest round of a fight over copyright.
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Seeing that they can't go for the easy money anymore, the RIAA aims for the impossible money.
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A class-action lawyer's lenient plea deal sends a bad message.
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The RIAA must pay P2P defendant Debbie Foster more than $68,000 for accusing her of sharing copyrighted music over the Kazaa network, by order of Oklahoma Judge Lee R. West.
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The litigious Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is involved in another legal dispute with a P-to-P (peer-to-peer) technology maker, but this time, the RIAA is on defense.
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The international record industry announced Thursday that it is planning to file lawsuits against individuals who are sharing files, especially music, over the Internet.
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Promoters pay radio stations annual fees for advance copies of playlists and bill record companies for each new song played, running up a tab that costs the industry tens of millions of dollars annually.
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SEATTLE: A San Francisco judge ordered Microsoft Corp to pay lawyers involved in its $1.1 billion class action settlement $100 million in legal fees, less than half of the original fees they requested, company officials said.
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is suing 761 people for alleged illegal filesharing. University students are a particular focus of the legal action with 25 people named for using university networks to distribute music.
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The Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA) has been suing people left, right and centre for illegal downloading, but now theyâve taken a more positive action toward supporting legit downloading services.
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Fund-raising efforts of woman ordered to pay recording industry $222,000 fall far short of amount needed to fund appeal.
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Just over a year ago, the recording industry unleashed its first barrage of lawsuits against people who share music online - a move that appeared to curtail illegal file swapping briefly.
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RIAA said Monday that it had sent out 408 letters offering to settle with students from 23 universities across the country. The letter offers those who receive it a discounted settlement for staying out of court.
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Controversial plan could force file swappers to face criminal charges.
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By JESSICA MINTZ SEATTLE - A federal jury's ruling that Microsoft infringed on two MP3 patents and must pay $1.52 billion in damages could turn into a major sour note for other technology companies in the digital music business.