Portland, Ore. - A federal judge has awarded an Oregon woman $107,834 in attorneys' fees to compensate for her expenses in a file-sharing copyright lawsuit that the record labels eventually dropped. The attorney for exonerated defendant Tanya Andersen had sought nearly $300,000 in attorneys' fees, while lawyers for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had argued that that amount was excessive, and instead asked the court to award just $30,000 in fees.

Los Angeles - The major record labels that sued Tanya Andersen (Atlantic v. Andersen) for infringing their copyrights on file-sharing networks, then eventually dropped their case, have been ordered by a federal court in Oregon to pay her nearly $108,000 in attorneys fees and costs, P2PNet reports.

Portland, Ore. - A woman sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for illegal file-sharing, whose case was dismissed with prejudice for lack of evidence, will receive attorneys fees from the record label trade group after a federal judge affirmed her motion yesterday, the Recording Industry vs. the People blog reports.