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March 21, 2007, 12:31 PM ET
Pre-Litigation, Round 2
The Recording Industry Association of America is moving full speed ahead with its new campaign of sending pre-litigation notices to campus song-swapping suspects: Today the trade group sent a second batch of 405 notices to 23 different colleges.
Some campus officials have voiced displeasure with the recording industry's new strategy, but most have chosen to forward the letters to students -- with at least one notable exception. "We’re encouraged by the response of universities that are forwarding the pre-litigation settlement letters to students," said Steven Marks, the RIAA's executive vice president and general counsel, in a written statement marking the second wave of notices.
The institutions receiving the new pre-litigation notices include Boston, Columbia, DePaul, Drexel, Ferris State, Purdue, and Vanderbilt Universities; Dartmouth and Ithaca Colleges; the University of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Santa Cruz; the University of Maine system, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the University of Wisconsin system, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The Wisconsin system, which was sent 66 letters, and Boston University, which got 50, were the hardest hit. --Brock Read
Categories: Campus-Piracy, Legal-Troubles
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