Canada's 4 biggest music labels fined $50mil

[thewayne]

"The 2008 class action alleges that the record companies “exploited” music owners by reproducing and selling in excess of 300,000 song titles without securing licenses from the copyright owners and/or without paying the associated royalty payments."

There's nothing like stealing directly from your clients.

http://www.canoe.com/cgi-bin/imprimer.cgi?langue=A&id=818616

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

That's the beauty of corporate structuring. American version has lots of money, foreign version has little money and gets smacked with a fine, doesn't affect big parent! Everybody (Wall Street) wins!

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

(there was a [/sarcasm] tag there at the end)