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Universal Sues MySpace
November 18th, 2006Photo courtesy of CNN
Is it the end of using other people’s content in order to build assets? According to the Wall Street Journal, Universal Music claims that MySpace “knowingly and intentionally” violated copyright law with regard to Universal’s music and videos. That’s despite the fact that MySpace has been working to detect and remove copyrighted songs uploaded by users, and that they’ve just announced a similar system for MySpace Video this morning (too late, it seems). MySpace, meanwhile, just put out a press release to say the suit is “meritless” and that they don’t “induce, encourage or condone copyright violation in any way”.
Google said last week that they backed $200M for legal copyright issues (regarding YouTube).
It seems like the days of sites violating copyright regulations, uploading content without paying royalties and gaining traffic and valuation for that – are over. The next YouTube or the next MySpace will need to pay royalties from day one.
December 1st, 2006 at 7:50 am
Anyone else having bother with myspace or is it just my pc?
Last couple of days it seems it wont let me download any song from anywhere.
Anyone having same bother - or anyone how to sort it?
March 12th, 2007 at 3:04 am
So why they only going after Myspace? Theres other social sites that allow this kind of thing. Something is wrong here.