Woman fined $220000 for illegal music sharing
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- Woman fined $220000 for illegal music sharing
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- Memorial held at Genesys for area’s car crash victims
Woman fined $220000 for illegal music sharing
The Independent – Independent – Oct 6, 2007
Jammie Thomas a native-American who works on an Indian reservation was ordered to pay the six record companies suing her $9250 for each of 24 songs they focused on in the case. The sum is equivalent to about five times her annual salary and is expected to force her into bankruptcy. Ms Thomas’s taste in music ran to tracks by the Swedish “death metal” band peth as well as Janet Jackson Green Day Guns N’ Roses Journey and Destiny’s Child among others. She was sued by Arista Records Capitol Records Inc. Interscope Records Sony BMG UMG Recordings Inc.
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Austin 360 – Austin 360 (subscription) – Oct 6, 2007
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Memorial held at Genesys for area’s car crash victims
mlive.com – Oct 6, 2007
Sanders | The Flint JournalSaturday ctober 06 2007 7:54 PMGRAND BLANC TWP. — Brakes squeal metal screeches sickeningly on metal and in an instant lives are changed forever. In Michigan last year 1085 people died in car crashes said Theresa Atkinson during opening remarks Saturday at the first Candlelight Memorial Ceremony on the Genesys Health Park campus. Atkinson president of Crash Survivors Network in Michigan which sponsored the vigil said the victims were more than statistics; they were someone’s beloved child parent sibling or best friend. Crash victims were remembered in the solemn ceremony held in the Genesys Sanctuary Garden. The wooded area behind the hospital is lined with paving stones engraved with memorials to deceased loved ones and includes a stone and bench donated by the Crash Survivors Network… Crash victims were remembered in the solemn ceremony held in the Genesys Sanctuary Garden. The wooded area behind the hospital is lined with paving stones engraved with memorials to deceased loved ones and includes a stone and bench donated by the Crash Survivors Network. Atkinson and her husband Patrick founded the group after the death of their 7-month-old daughter Emma Katherine in a car crash in 2003. Patrick Atkinson was seriously injured in the crash but has recovered. His wife and their eldest daughter Elise now 7 also were in the car. Elise solemnly passed lighted candles to her mother as the names of crash victims were read during the ceremony. A moment of silence was followed by “Amazing Grace” played by a bagpiper in full dress the haunting music soaring through the serene woods.