BRIEFCASE JUDGE: NAPSTER CAN SEE RECORD ACCORDS.Byline: - From Staff and Wire Reports SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - Napster will get a close look at major record label documents that reveal the underpinnings of their business agreements in forming two online music ventures, a federal judge ordered Tuesday. The song-swapping network is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. evidence of copyright misuse to bolster its legal defense and limit damages in the record labels' copyright infringement suit against it. The big five major labels, Sony, Warner, Universal, EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference) An electrical disturbance in a system due to natural phenomena, low-frequency waves from electromechanical devices or high-frequency waves (RFI) from chips and other electronic devices. Allowable limits are governed by the FCC. and BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass , will have to forward more than 500,000 pages of documents to Napster that also have been provided to the federal government. Slatkin charged in Ponzi scheme A fraudulent investment plan in which the investments of later investors are used to pay earlier investors, giving the appearance that the investments of the initial participants dramatically increase in value in a short amount of time. Los Angeles investment manager Reed Slatkin was charged Tuesday with orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme in which he solicited more than $593 million from about 800 investors over a 15-year period, federal prosecutors said. Slatkin, 53, co-founded Internet company EarthLink Inc. and separately managed investments for celebrities, online executives and socialites. Slatkin has agreed to plead guilty to the charges, acknowledging that he is responsible for at least $254 million in losses, Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, said in a prepared statement. A federal bankruptcy court bankruptcy court n. the specialized Federal court in which bankruptcy matters under the Federal Bankruptcy Act are conducted. There are several bankruptcy courts in each state, and each one's territory covers several counties. trustee said in December that Slatkin knowingly ran the scheme that funneled money from new investors to old investors who had been contributing funds since 1986. No new contract for CompuMed CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. CompuMed Inc., an independent provider of computer-based medical diagnostics, announced Tuesday that its employment agreement with its president and CEO will not be renewed. Herbert S. Lightstone will continue to serve as CEO until May 31. The company's board of directors has formed an executive search committee to select his successor, and a transition committee that will meet periodically with Lightstone prior to the end of his term. CompuMed also announced that it will hold a combined fiscal year 2000-01 stockholders' meeting on or about June 14 at the company's corporate offices in Los Angeles. Walker will direct real estate banking BEVERLY HILLS - Kennedy-Wilson Inc. announced Tuesday that the company has hired David Walker as a managing director responsible for leading the company's real estate investment banking division. Walker brings more than 10 years of real estate finance experience to Kennedy-Wilson, an international real estate services and fund management firm based in Beverly Hills. Walker previously served as managing director of West Coast Operations for CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation Mortgage Capital. MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. film channels to launch overseas SANTA MONICA - MGM Networks, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., announced Tuesday that it has entered into agreements to launch MGM-brand channels in Russia, Portugal, Malta and South Korea. The latest channel agreements, combined with MGM Networks' launch in the Middle East earlier this year, nearly doubles the number of countries in which MGM has established a channel presence to date. Overall, MGM now has equity interests in foreign channels that reach more than 40 countries around the world. In Europe, an MGM Movie Channel in Portugal is planned to launch in May. |
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