• • Plaintiff: Prince...
    In this case Prince filed a lawsuit stating that 22 fans committed numerous counts of copyright infringement when that posted unlicensed copies of Prince's concert.  The case was voluntarily dismissed but Prince has the right to refile his complaint at any time.  These individuals removed the unauthorized posts and will be watched to make sure they done repeat the instance.

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• • Yes this case shows the power that an artist has to protect themselves. but is the price way too large?
• • This is a good example of how with certain conditions an artist can protect their own work.
• • I see when this protection is necessary for uneducated artists who might have signed a faulty contract upon first entering the entertainment business, but I still argue that the fees are a bit extravagant. 

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• Citibank has decided to sell its retail business in Japan.
• Citibank had been the earliest and most aggressive bank to promote retail foreign currency deposits.
• What made this such a great business for Citibank is that they were able to offer interest rates significantly higher than Japanese banks for USD deposits because Citibank was able to deploy these deposits much more profitably than Japanese banks.
• While Japanese banks generally could only lend USD to their corporate customers at an international market-determined spread of perhaps one percent, Citibank was shipping Japanese consumer deposits back to New York to fund Citi’s credit card loan portfolio where the spread over cost of funds was 8-9 percentage points or higher.
• What seems clear now that Citibank has decided to withdraw from Japan’s retail market is that even the USD deposit business has stopped being profitable enough to carry the rest of the retail operations’ costs. 
• According to press reports, Citibank Japan has already begun approaching potential buyers, including Japan’s three megabanks, for its 33 branch domestic network.
• Citi’s departure will leave a huge gap–cultural as well as financial–in the banking market in Japan.

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