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If you read this carefully you will note that if too many people sign up it
will dilute the cash payment and if such dilution would make the
distribution less than $5 per person, then they will not make a payment and
will donate the money to charitable and non-profit organizations.


     "The cash paid by the Defendants, after the payment of attorneys' fees,
litigation and Settlement administration costs, shall be distributed to
consumers who purchased Music Products. The number of claims filed will
determine the actual amount of the individual refund but will not exceed
$20.00 per claimant. If the number of claims filed would result in refunds
of less than $5.00 per claimant, there will be no cash distribution to
individual consumers. Rather, the cash portion of the Settlement shall be
distributed to not-for-profit, charitable, governmental or public entities
to be used for music-related purposes or programs for the benefit of
consumers who purchased Music Products."




----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Beckett" <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Fwd: [Money from the music industry]


> This is cool.  I've been thinking some about this, actually.
>
> This is the settlement of a class action against the big record
> companies for price-fixing in the 90s.  You can sign up online and
> get between $5 and $20 as your share of the settlement.  I've checked
> it out and it is for real.
>
> It occured to me that, since we're each taking a small amount of the
> music industry's money in punishment for their bad behavior that
> we should each turn around and donate our settlement to a worthy
> organization that supports OUR digital rights and the public domain.
>
> This would obviously include EFF, Center for the Public Domain,
> Creative Commons, and so forth.  (What am I missing?)
>
> I have requested a hard-copy settlement claim form and I intend to
> make a bunch of copies to bring to the next InterNetWorkers
> gathering so everyone there can fill one out and make their claim.
> And I will provide an additional form that anyone who want can
> include to assign their share of the settlement to EFF or
> whoever.
>
> What do y'all think?
>
> TaB
>
>
> > For your enjoyment, specialy for Mr. "DRM"
> >
> >
> >
> > Salut,
> > Josep
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >
> >
> > Steve Kelley wrote:
> >> If you bought CDs from retail stores between 1995 and 2000, you can
> >> put in a claim for a portion of the settlement of a price-fixing case
> >> against big music companies.  You can get between $5 and $20
> >> (depending on the number of claims submitted), and so far the number
> >> of claims is way smaller than expected.  Here's an article on it to
> >> prove I'm not just crazy:
> >>
> >> http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4889636.htm
> >>
> >> And here's where you go to file your claim:
> >>
> >> http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm
> >
> >
> >
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