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Lawyering in DVD Copying Case Billing up to $765 Hourly
SAN FRANCISCO — Hollywood studios are paying up to $765 an hour for attorneys litigating a lawsuit aimed at preventing RealNetworks from marketing software that allows movie fans to copy their DVDs, according to court documents. All told, legal fees in the nearly year-old case against the Seattle-based company are likely to total millions as Hollywood fights to retain its grip on the DVD and prevent companies from offering copying services. At a hearing in federal court here last month, more than two dozen lawyers from both sides filled the courtroom for days of testimony surrounding the RealDVD software, which U.S.
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RealDVD Case: Home Copying Hangs in the Balance
SAN FRANCISCO -– Six days of hearings spanning a month ended here Thursday with no decision on whether RealNetworks may resume marketing its DVD copying software. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel is weighing the movie industry’s lawsuit against the Seattle-based company over its RealDVD software, which the judge ordered removed from the market last year pending the outcome of the case.
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