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| myspace.com being sued by umg | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 21 2006, 09:36 AM (73 Views) | |
| Vintage | Nov 21 2006, 09:36 AM Post #1 |
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Universal Music Group, the parent company of Island Def Jam, filed a lawsuit against MySpace.com's corporate parent News Corp. on Friday (Nov. 17), claiming the popular Internet site is guilty of copyright infringement. UMG, the world's largest label, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for California's Central District, after Jay-Z's highly anticipated come back album Kingdom Come was leaked on MySpace.com. The entire album hit the Internet last week and has been traded en masse across the Internet and heavily bootlegged around the country. "I'm sure it's cut into our sales, and not by a small amount," Antonio' "LA" Reid told The Wall Street Journal. "Even if it [sells] a million units it's not what it should have been." UMG and MySpace had been negotiating a deal that called for News Corp. to pay a licensing fee for Universal content. The deal stalled when UMG requested that News Corp. also pay restitution for content that had previously appeared on MySpace. MySpace is in the process of testing digital rights management software to report and remove files that infringe on an owners copyright. "Notwithstanding MySpace's frank admission that it is 'unable,' i.e., prohibited by law, from offering its music and video services without first obtaining the permission of the copyright owner, MySpace has knowing and intentionally operated its business on the fiction that it has obtained the licenses it needs to exist from members that MySpace well knows are not the true copyright owners," the suit stated. UMG seeks $150,000 in damages for each 58 songs and videos MySpace allegedly infringed upon. MySpace.com representatives were confident that they would "prevail in court." |
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| supaboy47 | Nov 21 2006, 11:38 AM Post #2 |
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my website, in the furure, will cost 250 dollars a month to be just like myspace i wish i could start it now since MYSPACE is prolly about to close down |
"The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous."  [Blazing Heat Dynasty] | |
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| Vintage | Nov 21 2006, 01:40 PM Post #3 |
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Yeah right, MySpace close down, they'd more likely close down the label. |
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| supaboy47 | Nov 21 2006, 01:58 PM Post #4 |
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how is the label gunna close down arent they the ones suing |
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"The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous." [Blazing Heat Dynasty] | |
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| Vintage | Nov 22 2006, 03:39 PM Post #5 |
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MySpace is so powerful now, it would never be shut down. |
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| supaboy47 | Nov 26 2006, 02:12 PM Post #6 |
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yea it seems like that but hey u neva kno |
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"The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous." [Blazing Heat Dynasty] | |
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