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Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:58:06 +0000

Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work. In... Read more...

Microsoft's $1.5 Billion MP3 Fine Dropped

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:45:09 +0000

In a development which Alcatel-Lucent calls "shocking and disturbing" and which Microsoft calls a "victory for consumers," a federal judge in the San Diego District Court has overturned a jury's decision which had ruled that... Read more...

Microsoft hit with $1.5 Billion Patent Verdict

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:58:23 +0000

After assessing damages based on each Windows PC sold since May 2003, a federal jury in San Diego ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology. Alcatel-Lucent... Read more...

AOL must pay $1.5 million to fired Netscape executive

Darren Bolton — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:54:46 +0000

A Santa Clara County jury Tuesday ordered America Online to pay about $1.5 million to a former top executive with its Netscape Communications division, after finding the company damaged his reputation when it fired him... Read more...