Random Lengths settles copyright suit for $300,000 and court injunction against the perp.Prominenttely featured--for the benefit and education of its readers--is this announcement in the August 24 issue of Random Lengths, "The Weekly Report on North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Forest Products Markets": "Random Lengths recently settled a lawsuit it filed against Carter Lumber Co., Kent, Ohio Kent is a city in Portage County, Ohio, United States. The population was 27,906 at the 2000 census, making it the county's largest city. Kent is home to the main campus of Kent State University. Nearby metropolitan areas include Akron, Cleveland, Canton, and Youngstown-Warren. , alleging that Carter Lumber infringed Random Lengths' copyright. The suit was filed in Federal District Court, Portland, Oregon, on January 23, 2007, following three months of communication between the two companies. Random Lengths alleged that Carter Lumber systematically forwarded Random Lengths' reports to some of the company's branches and customers without permission from or payment to Random Lengths. "Carter Lumber denied the allegations, but paid Random Lengths $300,000 and was enjoined by the court from copying or retransmitting Random Lengths' reports and from distributing reports derived from Random Lengths' publications. "'Litigation like this is expensive in dollars and time for both parties and diverts us from our mission of serving our subscribers,' said publisher Jon Anderson John Roy "Jon" Anderson (born October 25, 1944) is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes. He is also an accomplished solo artist, and has collaborated for over 20 years with the Greek musician Vangelis, creating the duo "Jon & Vangelis". . 'However, we must defend our copyrights when we believe they are being infringed. To not do so would put our company's future at great risk. In pursuing this case, we also stood up for the vast majority of our subscribers who respect our copyrights.'" Expensively researched proprietary information. The 1943-founded Random Lengths is an institution in itself in the lumber industry. In addition to providing news and information on every aspect of forest products--prices, trends, the market, delivery, for example--the $325/year weekly also gives readers detailed lumber price guides. Both its price charts and graphs are proprietary information, which forms a major motivation for Jon Anderson's unrelenting monitoring of its copyrighted material. Random Lengths is registered with the Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a not-for-profit U.S. company based in Danvers, Massachusetts, that provides collective copyright licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials. , which it states in its masthead mast·head n. 1. Nautical The top of a mast. 2. The listing in a newspaper or periodical of information about its staff, operation, and circulation. 3. along with its copyright notice and warning about illegal photocopying photocopying, process whereby written or printed matter is directly copied by photographic techniques. Generally, photocopying is practical when just a few copies of an original are needed. When many copies are required, printing processes are more economical. and retransmission Retransmission might refer to:
Random Lengths Publications Inc., 450 Country Club Road, #240, Eugene, OR 97440, 541-686-9925, fax 800-874-7979, www.randomlengths.com, www.rlpi.com, Jon Anderson, jpa@rlpi.com |
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