The RIAA Ordered To Pay Defendent Foster’s Attorney’s Fees

Debbie Foster won another legal victory against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) when a judge ordered the organization to reimburse her for “reasonable attorneys fees.” The RIAA originally sued the Oklahoma woman over copyright infringement – Capitol Record v. Debbie Foster – after someone using an IP address assigned to an Internet account in her name was discovered with a shared folder...

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Steve Jobs Asks The Majors “Can We All Just MP3?”

Apple, Inc.’s, Chief Executive Officer, Steve Jobs has written an open letter to the public calling on the major music labels to license their music free of Digital Rights Managment (DRM) to Apple and others, to create a “truly interoperable music marketplace.” It is the record labels who insist on making Apple’s iTunes store and other online stores resell their music bogged-down with DRM – and yet 90 per...

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