October 7, 2003

The increasing costs of Intranet Distribution

Redistributing a financial newsletter could cost Legg Mason approximately $20 million -- $800,000 in contract damages and about $19 million in copyright damages. That's how much a federal jury in Baltimore decided the money manager should pay for buying a single subscript.
[MSN Money via today's brief] More background via Denise Howell.


Previous Posts

  • Talk about Knowledge Management
  • Confessions of a Copyright Enforcer
  • Digital Copyright Law Still Damaging After All These Years
  • Digital Prisons
  • If you only make one phone call today
  • Consumer Market Power
  • Update to my post of Aug 16, 2002
  • I wonder if the RIAA is relying on Hotaling
  • More proof that DMCA-esque protection is out of whack with Copyright
  • Musicians discuss filesharing