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"Has the time come to abolish software patents? Fortune columnist Roger Parloff reports on a new campaign called End Software Patents, which he views as 'attempting to ride a wave of corporate and judicial disenchantment with aspects of the current patent system.' Ryan Paul of Ars Technica writes that the purpose of the campaign is to 'educate the public and encourage grass-roots patent reform activism in order to promote effective legislative solutions to the software patent problem.' The campaign site is informative and targets many types of readers, and it includes a scholarship contest with a top prize of $10,000.00. We've recently discussed the potential legal re-examination of software patents."
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RIAA faces lawsuits from artists
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is facing the possibility of legal action from artists who claim to have received no money from the settlement of peer-to-peer cases.
The RIAA has negotiated settlements worth hundreds of millions of dollars from YouTube, Napster, Kazaa and others, but the artists whom the organisation has been so litigiously defending say that they have not seen a cent.
"Artist managers and lawyers have been wondering for months when their artists will see money from the copyright settlements and how it will be accounted for," John Branca, a lawyer who has represented Korn, Don Henley and The Rolling Stones, told the New York Post.
"Some of them are even talking about filing lawsuits if they don't get paid soon."
The record companies have protested that some payments have been made and that they are working out the best way to pass the money onto artists.
However, it has been years since some settlements and artists, and their managers, are getting concerned.
"They will play hide and seek, but eventually will be forced to pay something," Irving Azoff, talent manager for The Eagles told the paper.
"The record companies have even tried to credit unrecouped accounts. It's never easy for an artist to get paid their fair share."
*www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2210889/riaa-faces-lawsuits-artists
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sametime,
RIAA faces lawsuits from artists
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is facing the possibility of legal action from artists who claim to have received no money from the settlement of peer-to-peer cases.
The RIAA has negotiated settlements worth hundreds of millions of dollars from YouTube, Napster, Kazaa and others, but the artists whom the organisation has been so litigiously defending say that they have not seen a cent.
"Artist managers and lawyers have been wondering for months when their artists will see money from the copyright settlements and how it will be accounted for," John Branca, a lawyer who has represented Korn, Don Henley and The Rolling Stones, told the New York Post.
"Some of them are even talking about filing lawsuits if they don't get paid soon."
The record companies have protested that some payments have been made and that they are working out the best way to pass the money onto artists.
However, it has been years since some settlements and artists, and their managers, are getting concerned.
"They will play hide and seek, but eventually will be forced to pay something," Irving Azoff, talent manager for The Eagles told the paper.
"The record companies have even tried to credit unrecouped accounts. It's never easy for an artist to get paid their fair share."
*www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2210889/riaa-faces-lawsuits-artists
