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Score: Tanya Andersen 1 | RIAA 0 |
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Written by Jared Maynard
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
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"RIAA nemesis Tanya Andersen has achieved another milestone victory.
She fought Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA to a standstill, forcing it to drop its spurious file sharing case against her, and now an Oregon court has awarded her close to $108,000 in fees and costs.
The amount, the highest ever, also signals what is in effect a default victory for other lawyers representing RIAA victims.
It means they now know they’ll be able to proceed with counterclaims bolstered by the knowledge they’ll be paid their work.
“This will assist in levelling the playing field in other cases,” Andersen’s lawyer, Lory Lybeck, told p2pnet.
It’s also only the second time these kinds of fees and costs, which count for up to July 1 last year, have been awarded, he says.
But Andersen’s fight to prove even a single mother on a medical disability pension can take on a multi-billion-dollar Big 4 labels and win, isn’t over yet." ~p2pnet.net
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