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Fidelity recordings without a license, and using counterfeit trademarks to deceive the public according to the lawsuit. Charly demanded that 43 North should turn over all earnings from selling the recordings, or pay up to $ 150,000 for each work infringed and $ 2 million for each counterfeit trademark, and turn over all of its products, packaging and literature to be destroyed.
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for using the Audio
Fidelity trademark and recordings without permission. Charly claimed it bought the rights to the Audio Fidelity recordings in a bankruptcy auction in 1997 and has been licensing and distributing the recordings. However, 43 North Broadway had apparently been reproducing and
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Herman Levy; 1913–1978). Audio
Fidelity Records, Inc., changed its name to Audiofidelity Enterprises, Inc., in May 1971. The last known releases under the Audio Fidelity label were circa 1984. In 1997, Audio Fidelity Records was purchased out of bankruptcy by Colliers Media Company. The Audio
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Stereophonic sound was not entirely new to the public. In 1952 sound engineer Emory Cook developed a "Binaural" disk that used two separate grooves and playback needles to produce stereophonic sound; the following year he had a catalog of about 25 disks available for
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