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S. judge orders MP3.com to pay roughly $118 million in copyright case NEW YORK, Sep 06, 2000 (The Canadian Press via COMTEX) -- A U.S. federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Internet music-sharing service MP3.com wilfully violated the copyrights of record companies, and ordered it to pay Universal Music Group roughly $118 million US, or $25,000 per CD. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said it was necessary to send a message to the Internet community to deter copyright infringement. Rakoff said he could have awarded as much as $150,000 per CD but chose a considerably smaller amount, in part because MP3.com had acted more responsibly than other Internet startups. Universal Music Group, the world`s largest record company and part of the Seagram Co. empire, had urged a stiff penalty in the closely watched case. "Music is a media and the next infringement may be very different," said Universal lawyer Hadrian Katz. "It may be video or it may be film or it may be books or it may be something very different." Katz had urged the judge to award the record company up to $450 million because MP3.com had copied 5,000 to 10,000 of the company`s CDs. The lawyer said such a penalty would cost MP3.com as much as $3.6 billion once the company was forced to pay all the other companies whose copyrights it had violated when it created an online catalogue of 80,000 CDs. |
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| Autor (Datum des Eintrages): | Pyscho (06.09.00 21:09:20) |
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