RIAA Sends Out Second Wave of College C+D Letters
The RIAA announced Wednesday that it had sent a second wave of 405 pre-litigation settlement letters to 23 universities on behalf of the major record companies. The RIAA is asking the schools to forward the letters to the individual network users identified. In this second round of the RIAA's campus initiative, letters were sent in the following quantities to the following schools: Boston University (50 pre-litigation settlement letters), Columbia University (20), Dartmouth College (11), DePaul University (18), Drexel University (20), Ferris State University (17), Ithaca College (20), Purdue University (38), University of California - Berkeley (19), University of California - Los Angeles (21), University of California - Santa Cruz (17), University of Maine system (27), University of Nebraska - Lincoln (25), University of Wisconsin system (66), Vanderbilt University (20), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (16), according to an RIAA press release. The RIAA initiative gives students an opportunity to resolve copyright infringement claims against them at a discounted rate before a formal lawsuit is filed.