Friday, December 12, 2008

SONY BMG Music enters into consent decree and pays $1M penalty over its gathering of information on children

SONY BMG Music has entered into a consent decree and agreed to pay a $1 million penalty over its unlawful gathering of information about children on its musicians' web sites.

Consent decree in US v. Sony

Source: Network World



Keywords: lawyer digital copyright law online internet law legal download upload peer to peer p2p file sharing filesharing music movies indie independent label freeculture creative commons pop/rock artists riaa independent mp3 cd favorite songs intellectual property portable music player

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

One is asked to give over so much personal information these days to use ostensibly free services.

{The Common Man Speaking}