Back in June 2023, an appellate court rejected a $1.7 million legal-fees award in a copyright suit filed against Rhapsody International/Napster. Now, a district judge has officially slashed the total to just over $86,000.
Judge Jeffrey White just recently awarded that comparatively modest sum plus another $13,162 in costs to the songwriter plaintiffs’ counsel, Michelman & Robinson LLP.
Long story short, those plaintiffs filed the original complaint nearly a decade ago, accusing Napster of exploiting their works without authorization.
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