[IP] RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: K.E. [guavaberry@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:27 AM
To: ip@v2.listbox.com; David Farber
Subject: RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied

Disgusting!
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RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied
Date: Jan 31, 2008 11:19 AM


From Slashdot:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/30/2053230

"Not content with current statutory damages, the RIAA is pushing
for
higher damages for infringement(1), damages that would total $1.5
million for copying a CD with ten songs. It's all part of debate over
the proposed PRO-IP Act. William Patry, a lawyer who wrote the seminal
seven-volume reference on US copyright law(2), called it the most
'outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.'"


(1)

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080129-statutory-damages-not-high-enough.html
(2)

http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2007/04/article_0009.html




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