Law Practice
Mar. 15, 2001
New Frontiers
Imagine being an attorney on the receiving end of a $1-billionsettlement offer to your client. That's "billion" - with a "B." That was how much Internet music-swapping company Napster offered to settle claims against it by the major record companies the day after a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the service to stop its millions of users from trading copyrighted recordings.
Imagine being an attorney on the receiving end of a $1-billionsettlement offer to your client. That's "billion" - with a "B."
That was how much Internet music-swapping company Napster offered to settle claims against it by the major record companies th...
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