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BART SET TO JOIN IN RIDER ABUSE
DENIS CUFF, CONTRA COSTA TIMES - The Bay Area Rapid Transit District is
shopping for communications companies to install televisions on its
trains and in its stations to broadcast news, entertainment, advertising
and announcements. . . BART expects that it could earn between $2.7
million and $7 million annually from its cut of advertising revenues
taken in by the television system operator, transit system managers
said.
BART would pay nothing to install or operate the televisions. "The
vendor would bear the full cost of offering this service and pay BART
for the right for the right to use our trains,” said Linton Johnson,
BART spokesman. “This is money we could use to clean trains, improve
service or do a lot of things.”. . .
Television is available on trains in Atlanta and buses in Los Angeles
County, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Orlando, Fla., and Chicago. . .
In response to noise concerns, BART has told potential vendors that
riders must be given a choice whether or not to hear the televisions.
How that will be done has not been determined, Johnson said.
In the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, train passengers
must bring a headset and tune in to a certain radio frequency to hear
the televisions. This is in contrast to televisions on buses, which
broadcast the sound throughout the vehicle so all riders can hear it.
BART will not dictate programming, but it will limit advertising to 20
minutes per hour of programming, according to the transit system’s
request for TV proposals.
http://www.commercialalert.org
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RIAA ORDERED TO PAY LEGAL FEES IN CASE IT LOST
ANNE BROACHE, CNET In what appears to be the first such occurrence, the
recording industry must foot nearly $70,000 in legal bills incurred by
an Oklahoma woman whom it unsuccessfully accused of "vicariously" aiding
copyright infringement. Until Monday's ruling in this case, called
Capitol v. Foster, the Recording Industry Association of America had
never been ordered to pay attorneys' fees as part of its ongoing battle
against allegedly illicit file swapping, according to attorney Ray
Beckerman, who has been tracking such suits at the blog Recording
Industry vs The People.
http://news.com.com/
8301-10784_3-9745831-7.html?part=
rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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BART SET TO JOIN IN RIDER ABUSE
DENIS CUFF, CONTRA COSTA TIMES - The Bay Area Rapid Transit District is
shopping for communications companies to install televisions on its
trains and in its stations to broadcast news, entertainment, advertising
and announcements. . . BART expects that it could earn between $2.7
million and $7 million annually from its cut of advertising revenues
taken in by the television system operator, transit system managers
said.
BART would pay nothing to install or operate the televisions. "The
vendor would bear the full cost of offering this service and pay BART
for the right for the right to use our trains,” said Linton Johnson,
BART spokesman. “This is money we could use to clean trains, improve
service or do a lot of things.”. . .
Television is available on trains in Atlanta and buses in Los Angeles
County, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Orlando, Fla., and Chicago. . .
In response to noise concerns, BART has told potential vendors that
riders must be given a choice whether or not to hear the televisions.
How that will be done has not been determined, Johnson said.
In the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, train passengers
must bring a headset and tune in to a certain radio frequency to hear
the televisions. This is in contrast to televisions on buses, which
broadcast the sound throughout the vehicle so all riders can hear it.
BART will not dictate programming, but it will limit advertising to 20
minutes per hour of programming, according to the transit system’s
request for TV proposals.
http://www.commercialalert.org
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RIAA ORDERED TO PAY LEGAL FEES IN CASE IT LOST
ANNE BROACHE, CNET In what appears to be the first such occurrence, the
recording industry must foot nearly $70,000 in legal bills incurred by
an Oklahoma woman whom it unsuccessfully accused of "vicariously" aiding
copyright infringement. Until Monday's ruling in this case, called
Capitol v. Foster, the Recording Industry Association of America had
never been ordered to pay attorneys' fees as part of its ongoing battle
against allegedly illicit file swapping, according to attorney Ray
Beckerman, who has been tracking such suits at the blog Recording
Industry vs The People.
http://news.com.com/
8301-10784_3-9745831-7.html?part=
rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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