On October 5, 2007, Thomas was ordered to pay the six record companies ( Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc .) $ 9, 250 for each of the 24 songs they had focused on in this case.

Sony Walkman WM-2 with plastic battery case and beltclip ( 1980 )

Almost immediately after the announcement of a new bass player, the 2003 Incubus vs. Sony case had been settled.

The key issue in the copyright infringement case was the so-called ' Sony safe-harbor ' principle that was set by the Supreme Court over 21 years ago in Sony v. Universal Studios 464 U. S. 417 ( 1984 ).

* The cost-benefit analysis, first introduced by Judge Posner from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Aimster case, holds that a manufacturer of technological device will enjoy the Sony safe-harbor only if "... it would have been disproportionately costly for him to eliminate or at least reduce substantially the infringing uses.

One other major consequence of the Betamax technology's introduction to the U. S. was the lawsuit Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios ( 1984, the " Betamax case "), with the U. S. Supreme Court determining home videotaping to be legal in the United States, wherein home videotape cassette recorders were a legal technology since they had substantial noninfringing uses.

The case was eventually closed in favour of Connectix, but Connectix was unable to sell the software in the meantime because Sony had been awarded a temporary injunction.

Sony, despite having lost its case with Connectix, continued to pursue legal action against Bleem !.

In Italy a judge threw out a Sony case saying it was up to owners of a console what they did with it.

Others, such as the Sony / BMG rootkit distributed silently on millions of music CDs through late 2005, are intended as DRM measures — and, in that case, as data gathering agents, since both surreptitious programs they installed routinely contacted central servers.

This move prompted a round of litigation from MGM, which was settled in an out-of-court settlement in which Sony gave up all claims on Bond, although McClory still claimed he would proceed with another Bond film, and continued his case against MGM and Danjaq ; on 27 August 2001 the court rejected McClory's suit.

The microbox case designed by Atari Corp. looks a lot like the Sony PlayStation 2, right down to the ability to run it vertically or horizontally.

A second round of legal battles between Pavel and Sony that began in 1989 in Great Britain ended when the case was dismissed in 1996, leaving Pavel to pay more than $ 3 million in court costs.

While the Zire was the same old PDA in a white plastic case, the Tungsten T was the first to run Palm OS 5, bringing the Palm line more up to date to compete with increasingly popular and powerful Sony Clie and Windows Mobile competitors.

Sony responded in a statement saying that Lik-Sang had not contested the case, thus incurring no legal fees, and had not paid any damages or costs to Sony.

This was the case in the Sony rootkit fiasco.

The Commission has been involved in a number of high profile cases fighting anticompetitive behaviour ; such as the case against the merger of Sony – BMG, against Apple Inc. regarding iTunes and the ongoing case against Microsoft.

But Diamond won a legal victory on the shoulders of the Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios case and DAPs were legally ruled as electronic devices.

Despite this, Sony lost the case in June 2006.

The case is frequently characterized as a re-examination of the issues in Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, 464 U. S. 417 ( 1984 ) — AKA the " Betamax case ", a decision that protected VCR manufacturers from liability for contributory infringement.

Modern reloading dies are generally standardized with 7 / 8-14 ( or, for the case of 50 BMG dies, with 1-1 / 4x12 ) threads and are interchangeable with all common brands of presses, although older dies may use other threads and be press-specific.

On March 31, 2004, in the case of BMG v. John Doe, Justice Konrad von Finckenstein of the Federal Court of Canada ruled that making music available for download over the Internet was not equivalent to distribution and was thus noninfringing.

Recent activity has included a submission to the Canadian government concerning the Internet Service Provider wiretapping legislation reforms known as the Lawful Access proposals, and intervention in the BMG Canada Inc. and others v. Doe and others file-sharing case, where an Ontario Court refused to allow the Canadian Recording Industry Association and several major record labels from obtaining the subscriber information of ISP customers alleged to have been infringing copyright.

It uses the. 50 BMG case with the neck opened up to accept a bullet.

In each case there was an initial act of violence.

In any case, there is no special milling or rabbeting required for the panels.

This conformational entropy is, in this case, equal to the usual entropy, for there are no other changes or other energies involved.

The hypothesis of there being an interaction between compulsivity and teaching method was supported, in this case, at the level.

In the only sense in which badness is involved at all, whatever was bad in the first case is still present in its entirety, since all that is expressed in either case is a state of feeling, and that feeling is still there.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

And there is a way in which he might hold that badness did in this case precede our own feeling of disapproval without belonging to the pain itself.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.

In the case of the Borglum statue an Interior aide was obliged to announce that there had been a misunderstanding and that the Secretary had no desire to `` hustle '' it out of Washington.

But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

`` What this amounts to, if true, is that there will be a free-for-all fight in this case.

In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension.

At Berger's direction, the city also intervened in the Hughes bankruptcy case in U. S. District Court in a move preliminary to filing a claim there.

Yet there is the classic case of the Gershwins' `` The Man I Love ''.

Lucy glancing at the miniature case, knew there would not be enough in it for the shortest of stays ; ;

The sail was still unfurled, though there were a good many holes in it, as Langer had predicted would be the case by now.

There was some debate at the time whether there should be more control characters rather than the lower case alphabet.

In the case of new evidence, there must be a high probability that its presence or absence would have made a material difference in the trial.

If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

In a criminal case, there is usually an arraignment or some other kind of appearance before the defendant comes to court.

Because there is no canonical well-ordering of all sets, a construction that relies on a well-ordering may not produce a canonical result, even if a canonical result is desired ( as is often the case in category theory ).

In the case of the complex numbers, C, there is a unique nontrivial automorphism that sends R into R: complex conjugation, but there are infinitely ( uncountably ) many " wild " automorphisms ( assuming the axiom of choice ).