Math error may mean MP.3 owes more in lawsuit; award may increase up to 900 percent

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The judge in the copyright suit against MP3.com reports that the jurors had intended the damages to be as high as $3 million rather than the $296,873 announced, due to a mathematical error. He says the jurors may have made an error in their division when figuring out how much should be paid to the Tee Vee Toons record label. Judge Rakoff has not yet entered a judgement, and has some discretion in how he adjudicates the case. A month ago, Judge Rakoff ruled that MP3.com was liable for copyright infringement for posting music from Tee Vee Toons CDs online.

Video Retailing Service, All Other Information Services, Integrated Record Production/Distribution, Prerecorded records and tapes, Records & Tapes, Analysis, Management, Online services, Internet services, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Copyrights, Home shopping, Sound recordings, Damages, Damages (Law), Jury members, Judicial error, CNET Networks Entertainment. MP3.com, Tee Vee Toons Inc.

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261 LAWSUITS FILED ON MUSIC SHARING

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Recording industry manufacturers are suing 261 individuals who allegedly shared copyrighted sound recordings via the Internet. The industry plans thousands more lawsuits over copyright infringement. Part of the legal strategy includes an offer for violators to destroy all of their illegally shared files and sign an agreement to cease online music trading if they want to avoid fines or imprisonment. It remains to be seen if the lawsuits will provide future copyright protection for artists.

Copyright infringement

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In Court, Verizon Challenges Music Industry's Subpoenas

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Verizon, a leading Internet service provider, is fighting a court ordered subpoena requiring it to turn over records on customers who engage in online music trading to the recording industry. At issue is the interpretation of a 1998 law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that allows copyright holders the right to demand records on people infringing on their copyrights.

Patents & copyrights, Internet service providers, Internet service provider, Intellectual property, Records and correspondence, Recording Industry Association of America, Piracy (Copyright), Verizon Communications Inc., VZ

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