The Orchard Wins TVT Bankruptcy Auction

The Orchard has declared they are the winners of the TVT Records Chapter 11 auction, held yesterday in New York. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and our inquiries to The Orchard’s PR department were rebuffed, but it is been reported that The Orchard shelled out $6.05 million for the honor of taking the beleaguered label off of Steve Gottlieb’s hands. The acquisition, expected to close by July 3, is still subject to...

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RIAA Drops Infringement Lawsuit Against Joan Cassin After “Making Available” Challenge

House Of Cards Finally Falling? The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA, if you’re nasty) has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit against Joan Cassin. The news demonstrates that the RIAA is finding itself more and more on shaky legal ground, and begins to raise even more questions about its tactic for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharers. The case, Warner v. Cassin, was voluntarily dropped...

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