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The Dallas Buyers case is a variation on copyright settlement shakedowns called "speculative invoicing", one method the industry has been using abroad to avoid televised tears on the courthouse steps (and the corresponding brand damage).
Under a recent copyright settlement, that rate has risen to 50 cents per customer, and it is set to jump to 1.05 dollars, or 84 U.S. cents, in a few years.
But how many more bright youngsters will have their lives turned upside down because we haven't reached a new copyright settlement that understands the internet is here to stay?" Wales's campaign calls on the home secretary, Theresa May, to revoke her permission for O'Dwyer to be extradited.
With about six weeks to go before the crucial stage of the largest copyright settlement ever, we may be ignoring its most important dimension.
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Excluding revamping costs and a copyright infringement settlement of $13 million with the operators of the Kazaa online file-sharing service, the loss totaled a penny a share.
Strong digital sales and a portion of the Kazaa copyright infringement settlement helped the Warner Music Group Corporation swing to a profit in the fourth quarter, but the recording company's results fell short of Wall Street's expectations.
Excluding one-time items, including a gain of $13 million related to a copyright infringement settlement with file-sharing service Kazaa, Warner posted a loss of a penny a share, short of the Wall Street forecast of break-even and worsening from a profit of four cents a share a year earlier.
But it's important, too, to note that this is not the first payout Merlin has had: it has deals in place with Spotify, YouTube, Google Music, Rdio (the irony!) and Simfy; and it has also reached other copyright infringement settlements with XM Sirius and Grooveshark, among others — although these may not have been on the scale of its LimeWire action.
During the case, iiNet's lawyers accused Voltage of using discovery letters to threaten those who had infringed its copyright into making settlements.
The strategic exploitation of IP is not limited to patents; federal courts are now encountering copyright trolls extorting settlements from innocent individuals, and sophisticated market players are using copyright uncertainty to attack innovative Internet platforms and impede consumer adoption of new technology.
The judge ruled that the settlement circumvented copyright law and would "further entrench" Google's dominance in internet searches.
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