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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedSightSound settlement.(Vidbits)(Sightsound Technologies)(CDNOW Inc.)(N2K Inc.)(Brief Article)
Video Business, March, 2004 by Sweeting, Paul
* Bertelsmann Music subsidiaries CDNow and N2K have agreed not to contest a series of patents held by Mount Lebanon, Pa.-based SightSound Technologies covering the commercial downloading of music via the Internet. The agreement, part of an out-of-court settlement in SightSound's patent infringement case against the online music retailers, paves the way for SightSound to challenge other online merchants offering paid downloads of movies and music, including such studio-backed initiatives as Movielink and Apple's iTunes service.
As part of the agreement, CDNow and N2K accepted a consent order issued by the court under which the SightSound patents are deemed "valid and enforceable." The retailers did not acknowledge any prior infringing activity related to their...
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