CD`S Coming To State Libraries
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The state attorney general said today that
thousands of compact discs will be distributed to Arkansas
libraries as part of a settlement in a national antitrust case.
The 2002 settlement with five distributors and three music
retailers resulted in more than 200 thousand dollars in refunds to
individual Arkansans.
In the next phase of the settlement, each of 229 libraries in
Arkansas will receive about 230 CDs randomly selected from a wide
range of music, excluding CDs with parental-advisory labels.
Libraries that do not want to keep the CDs can sell them for
fund-raising purposes for music-related programs.
Attorney General Mike Beebe said the case involved allegations
of price fixing. Forty-three states, territories and commonwealths
took part in the settlement.
