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MUSIC INDUSTRY ANNOUNCES GROKSTER SETTLEMENT

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Sort Desciption: Taiwan – the music industry today hailed the settlement as an important milestone in the. continuing transformation of the online marketplace. ...

Content Inside: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2005 MUSIC INDUSTRY ANNOUNCES GROKSTER SETTLEMENT WASHINGTON, DC – The owners and operators of the Grokster peer-to-peer (P2P) network – the lead and most well-known defendants in one of the Supreme Court’s seminal decisions this year and the most profound case affecting copyright laws in two decades – have agreed to settle the three-year-old legal case with the nation’s major record companies, motion picture studios and music publishers. A consent judgment will be submitted to the court today for its approval. Coming just four months after the Supreme Court’s ruling in MGM vs. Grokster – and on the heels of a rapid succession of similar international rulings in Korea, Australia and Taiwan – the music industry today hailed the settlement as an important milestone in the continuing transformation of the online marketplace. “This settlement brings to a close an incredibly significant chapter in the story of digital music,” said Mitch Bainwol, Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). “This is a chapter that ends on a high note for the recording industry, the tech community and music fans and consumers everywhere. At the end of the day, this is about our ability to invest in new music. An online marketplace populated by legitimate services allows us to do just that.” “The Grokster verdict has spurred growth and innovation for legal music services, including a legitimate peer-to-peer market,” said David Israelite, Chairman and CEO of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). “Now that a legal online entertainment environment has been established, the ultimate winners in the Grokster case are the music fans, who now have more options than ever before to hear the music they love.” The settlement includes a permanent injunction prohibiting infringement – directly or indirectly – of any of the plaintiffs’ copyrighted works. This includes ceasing immed ...

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