Lawyers for Ford and General Motors and their respective...

Lawyers for Ford and General Motors and their respective suppliers, Clarion and Denso, won a deadline extension to Sept. 26 to answer a complaint from the Alliance for Artists and Recording Companies (AARC) (CED July 31 p5) that they violated the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA) the past three years because they shipped vehicles with CD-copying hard drives without building the Serial Copy Management System into the devices or paying the royalties required under the AHRA. “Good causes exist to grant this motion because this putative class action involves potentially complex issues of law arising under” the AHRA, said the deadline-extension request filed in U.S District Court for the District of Columbia (http://1.usa.gov/VPQktw), which the AARC did not oppose.