Collusion in the restraint of trade?
July 2nd, 2007 by Sonny
A defendant in one of the many copyright infringement lawsuits by record companies as a rather interesting discover request:
Slashdot | RIAA Wants Agreements to Stay Secret
‘The plaintiffs, who are competitors, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and of public policy, by tying their copyrights to each other, collusively litigating and settling all cases together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in accordance with a uniform agreement, and through common lawyers, thus overreaching the bounds and scope of whatever copyrights they might have. …As such, they are guilty of misuse of their copyrights.’
Basically it sounds like their making the argument that because they’re acting has a cartel they’ve violated anti-trust laws and misused their own copyrights. The former may well be true and the latter looks like something of a stretch to me.
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