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The apparently missing messages cover a period between 2003 and 2005, a period during which there was not a functioning backup system.

The case does not stem from a specific investigation, but highlights the ongoing battle over the limits of executive power. The watchdog groups claim the White House failure to recover, restore, and preserve electronic communications violates the Federal Records Act.

exonerating the Walt Disney Company’s board and two former executives of charges in a shareholder lawsuit that they neglected their duties and wasted company assets.

He acknowledged paying Mr. Pellicano $75,000 in cash to dig up information about her and another reporter who he said were hurting him, but he said he did not know Mr. Pellicano was doing anything illegal.“I wanted to know when I was going to be ambushed, when the next shoe was going to drop,” said Mr. Ovitz, describing a period in 2002 when his attempt at a Hollywood comeback was collapsing — hastened, he believed, by Ms. Busch’s articles.

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Bråket grundar sig i ett avsnitt av komikern Russell Brands radioprogram på public service-kanalen BBC Radio 2. Tillsammans med BBC:s högst betalda profil, Jonathan Ross, spelade Brand in flera meddelanden på skådespelaren Andrew Sachs telefonsvarare. Bland annat sade komikerparet att Brand haft sex med Sachs barnbarn Georgina Baillie, 23, och att skådespelaren troligtvis skulle hänga sig när han nu fick höra det.

Skämtet väckte en enorm folkstorm i Storbritannien och på bara en vecka hade närmare 30.000 protester kommit in till BBC. Samtidigt återupptogs debatten kring public service-utbudet där värvningen av den extremt högt betalde komikern Jonathan Ross stundvis kritiserats kraftigt.

Russell Brand sade själv upp sig efter kritiken och Jonathan Ross har stängts av från BBC, där han sänder såväl tv som radio, under tre månader. Kort efter beskedet om Brands uppsägning avgick även BBC-chefen Lesley Douglas.

Prince’s attorneys withdrew from the case and he was not represented during the trial.

The researchers believe that most downloading is done over peer-to-peer networks by teens and college kids, groups that are “money-poor but time-rich,” meaning they wouldn’t have bought the songs they downloaded. In that sense, the music industry can’t claim those downloads as lost record sales.

Recent headlines have documented the damage done by the economy to orchestras, museums and other arts institutions. The latest wounded body is in the nonprofit sector, where the world’s largest funder of free concerts is a victim not only of a slumping economy but also of recording piracy, an industry representative said.This year the New York-based Music Performance Trust Fund has had to cut its allocations by almost 40%.