Mon, November 20, 2006
And the lawsuits continue. "Continuing its aggressive campaign to remove unlicensed clips from video-sharing sites, Universal Music Group Friday sued social networking site MySpace.com for copyright infringement. The suit charges that MySpace doesn't adequately police users from posting Universal-owned clips. "The foundation of MySpace is its so-called 'user-generated content.' However, much of that content is not 'user-generated' at all," alleges the music label, which counts U2, Fergie, The Killers, and Kanye West among its artists. "Rather, it is the 'user-stolen' intellectual property of others, and MySpace is a willing partner in that theft. The suit comes just four weeks after Universal filed a similar complaint against video-sharing sites Grouper and Bolt." Read it at MediaPost.
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