BRIEFCASE SUPERIOR LOCKS UP NEW DODGE DEAL.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services VAN NUYS - Superior Industries International Inc. said Wednesday that it will supply aluminum wheels for the 2003 model year Dodge Dakota light truck and Dodge Durango SUV. Production shipments for both of these models have already begun. The value of the new business was not announced. Superior already received contracts from DaimlerChrysler to provide wheels for the PT Cruiser and Dodge Ram truck. The company also supplies aluminum wheels and other aluminum automotive components to Ford, General Motors, BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. , Volkswagen, Audi, Land Rover, MG Rover, Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru and Isuzu. In-state filmers may get tax break SACRAMENTO - The Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee advanced a bill granting incentives for producing television shows and movies within California, to compete with other states and nations trying to lure television and movie productions. Even productions ostensibly centered in California - like ``L.A. Law: The Movie'' and ``Pasadena'' - are increasingly being filmed in Canada or other states, bill supporters said. The bill sent to the Senate Appropriations Committee would give state tax credits to film, television and commercial production companies that keep at least half their production in California. The credit would apply only to productions with total wage payments between $200,000 and $10 million. 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. files lawsuit that targets AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. EMI Group filed suit against AOL Time Warner Wednesday, claiming the world's largest media company has been playing songs on its Turner Broadcasting network and America Online Internet service without paying for them. The dispute pits the owners of two of the major recording companies against each other at a time when they are working together with the rest of the recording industry to fight against copyright violations by various online operations. EMI's publishing unit contends that AOL Time Warner is illegally using songs for promotional purposes from ``The Wizard of Oz Wizard of Oz reaches and departs from Oz in circus balloon. [Children’s Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] See : Ballooning Wizard of Oz false wizard takes up residence in Emerald City. [Am. Lit. ,'' ``Singin' in the Rain Singin’ in the Rain downpour doesn’t dampen singer’s spirits. [Pop. Music: Fordin, 355] See : Cheerfulness ,'' and other classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies. The suit, filed in the Southern District Court of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , seeks unspecified monetary damages and injunctive relief injunctive relief n. a court-ordered act or prohibition against an act or condition which has been requested, and sometimes granted, in a petition to the court for an injunction. . ``We believe that AOL Time Warner, and a whole bunch of their companies, have been rampantly using our copyrighted material without licensing it or paying for it,'' said Martin Bandier, chairman and chief executive of EMI Music Publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. . Tricia Primrose, a spokeswoman for AOL Time Warner, said the company had not yet seen EMI's statement of claim and had no comment. |
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