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Article: Bertelsmann hoping to settle remaining Napster-based lawsuits.(Digital Media Legal Matters)(cases between music publishers and Bertelsmann AG)
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- The Online Reporter
- Article date:
- January 29, 2005
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Last week's decision by Michigan record label Bridgeport Music to settle its Napster-based suit against Bertelsmann gives the parent of major label BMG Music hope that EMI, Universal and the music publishers that sued it will also settle. The suit was based on Bertelsmann lending something on the order of $85 million to the then-renegade Napster, which was operating a P2P network used to trade music tracks for free. Under then-CEO Thomas Middelhoff, Bertelsmann was Napster's biggest funder, putting money into the P2P pioneer in the form of a secured loan. Napster hired Bertelsmann's Digital World Systems (DWS) operation to craft its security layer, so in a sense some of ...
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