RIAA Loses Bid To Keep Revenues Secret

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's motion to keep secret the record companies' 1999-to-date revenues for the copyrighted song files at the heart of the case has been denied, in the Boston case scheduled for trial July 27th, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum. The Judge had previously ordered the plaintiff record companies to produce a summary of the 1999-to-date revenues for the recordings, broken down into physical and digital sales. On the day the summary was due to be produced, instead of producing it, they produced a 'protective order motion' asking the Judge to rule that the information would have to be kept secret. The Judge rejected that motion: 'the Court does not comprehend how disclosure would impair the Plaintiffs' competitive business prospects when three of the four biggest record labels in the world — Warner Bros. Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and UMG Recording, Inc. — are participating jointly in this lawsuit and, presumably, would have joint access to this information.'"

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good lord

[amohat]

Maybe I'm wrong about the judicial system...apparently there's a lone judge out there who isn't an idiot or a stooge!

Who knew?

Re:Come on Ray!

[mcgrew]

True; my favorite station here is WQNA. But like most of them, it's low wattage, and they're few and far between. A musician could hardly count on college radio, and the majors have little to fear from them.

Back in the '70s when I want to SIU in Edwardsville, up on the bluffs, there was a ten watt college station in Forest Park in St Louis. I had an excellent reciever. Once I called them, and they were shocked and amazed that I could hear them all the way up in Edwardsville.

They stopped cursing and playing Mother of Invention songs. I should have never called!