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page........ Tweet 40 Billion Dollars is a Lot of Money - Where's Our Fair Share? On September 27, 2011 a first amended complaint was filed in the Davis et al v. AT&T et al antitrust case, now a proposed class action. Plaintiffs have added Unjust Enrichment as a cause of action based upon the U.S. wireless carriers' aggregate gross income of over $40b from MMS since inception. Plaintiffs contend that the actual gross amount may be much greater and will be determined more accurately within discovery with the permission of the Court. The case is 11-02674 DDP and it appears below this article. It couldn't be more obvious that something is wrong within a system that only exists because of copyrighted works, yet has failed to pay the creators of those works anything over the years. This is a serious matter that jeopardizes the sustenance of many who depend upon monetizing their creativity as a way to feed themselves and their families. In fact, I think it's outrageous that we even have to fight with these guys over an obvious benefit to society and the good of the whole versus their keeping profits that don't really belong to them exclusively.
As many of you
already know, GDRI was founded in 2011 to work with the carriers
to remedy their flawed MMS infrastructure by providing the missing
accountability and fair compensation to creators which would legitimize
the carriers' claims of non-responsibility and liability. However,
for whatever reasons, they have been slow to understand the vast
ramifications of being non-proactive in dealing.....
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.....with the illegal peer to peer file sharing issues. And so, their huge liability remains and is growing more and more everyday. Adding "Unjust Enrichment" as a cause of action within the Davis et al v. AT&T et al antitrust case provides an element of security for those of us with MMS assets that are believed to have been and are currently being infringed and exploited via the carriers' MMS networks. One way or another, we will get our day in court (an actual trial). We feel very strongly that ultimately we will prevail. We can fight for as long as they want to fight, our perseverance is not an issue to be concerned about. But, I'm getting a little concerned about their motivation and principles since these are large American corporations. Why don't they understand that creators have lost a tremendous amount of revenue from the millions of non-monetized Internet intellectual property transactions going on everyday? Is there a connection to our slow economy and joblessness? You can bet your sweet ass there is. Imagine for a few moments that the millions of daily non-monetized Internet transactions were actually monetized in some way. A creator is basically a small business. Small businesses are responsible for most of the employment opportunities and local circulation of dollars in the United States. Undermining creators', artists' and rights holders' ability to monetize their stock and trade (creativity) is an action with serious negative ramifications to our country. It is high time these large public corporations wake up and become more responsible for their actions for the good of the whole. How can they selfishly focus on their own profit margins while people are being screwed by those actions? There is a happy medium. We'll see them when they get there. Thanks to "Unjust Enrichment" - I'm not concerned about the money anymore. - md "The standard (OMA DRM 1.0) is developed mainly to solve two problems. Firstly, there is no standardized way of preventing illegal peer-to-peer content delivery that exists on phones without forward-lock." - excerpted from a 2003 DRM white paper
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