From WMOT News
(2007-11-08)
ANN ARBOR
(Michigan Radio) -
Attorney General Mike Cox announced Thursday that five Michigan music organizations shared in a nationwide settlement against music distributors. The class action lawsuit alleged that retailers and distributors conspired to fix compact disc prices. The AG's office has already given out about a million dollars to individual plaintiffs in the case. Melia Tourangeau is the president of the Grand Rapids Symphony. She says the symphony received close to 50,000 dollars from the settlement.
"It's huge for our budget this year, especially considering state funding is tenuous at best these days and the economy is still struggling in Michigan," she said. "So any type of windfall like this is completely appreciated and needed."
The Detroit symphony received more than 66,000 dollars. That's the largest chunk of the 165,000 dollars shared by the five groups.
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