[ale] Phillips CD patent

[Steve Long]

The letter sounds more like a "Don't blame us if our customers make CD's"
letter.

I probably is meant to intimidate you, but more for the RIAA to target
anybody but them.
Especially in reference to the McDonald's trial and similar ones going
around.
RIAA is targeting KAZAA and Phillips wants to beat them to the punch to say
"It wasn't me!!!"

Phillips' standard is everywhere.  If RIAA could prove Phillips was even
negligent, it would lose millions.







----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at sciatl.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Phillips CD patent


> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > I just got the strangest letter from Phillips IP legal group. Basically,
> > they own butt loads of patents on CD technology. Including the making of
> > the disks themselves. Apparently, there are some cd-r cd-rw and dvd-r
> > and dvd-rw disk makers that are not paying out their license fees to
> > Phillips for the making of the media. So the letter is a warning that if
> > I, or my company specifically, is using any of the "bootleg" blank
> > disks, Phillips will then consider that I am an accomplice and will be
> > subject to paying the license fee on the disks myself.
> >
> > WTF!!!
> >
>
>  From the wording of the letter, it's scare tactics, because they appear
to be
> claiming that anyone who buys content on a 'bootleg' CD is liable - like
the
> members of the BMG music club who get their CDs.  I cannot believe that
such a
> claim is valid, on that basis.
>
> If they wrote you and informed you that you *are* using a *specific* brand
of
> discs that are bootleg, then they might have a leg to stand on;  however,
it
> also seems that if their claim is valid, they could force the bootleg
mfgrs to
> stop making the discs.
>
> --
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