Record Labels Lose Round in Copyright Case
A Reuters newswire article, via CNN/Money, reports that:
A federal judge has ordered major record labels to turn over privileged documents after finding they may have used misleading information to convince the government to abandon a major antitrust probe.More here.
The ruling late Friday from U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco came out of a dispute over which documents Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group and EMI Group PLC should be forced to release in a lengthy copyright battle over Bertelsmann's investment in music-swapping service Napster.
Prosecutors in 2001 began investigating whether music labels secretly worked together to use two joint ventures, MusicNet and Pressplay, to discourage digital downloading and protect CD sales by fixing digital music distribution terms.
During the investigation, the joint ventures and their record label parents each submitted a "white paper" to the DOJ summarizing their arguments. They also provided documents that included redacted, or blacked out, sections to remove privileged material.
posted by Fergie @ 4/23/2006 05:18:00 PM
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