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Music Publishers Settle Suit Against Unlicensed Lyrics Site
Washington
- The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) announced on Tuesday that it
has successfully settled its copyright infringement suit against Motive Force
and Sean Colombo, operators...
Guilty File-Swapper Tenenbaum Seeks New Trial
Boston
- Joel Tenenbaum, the Boston-area student who was found guilty of sharing 30 songs
online and ordered to pay the major record labels $675,000 in...
U2's Bono Decries File-Sharing, "Rich Service Providers"
New York
- U2 frontman Bono took to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times over the
weekend, in part to rail against the sharing...
Google Begins Favoring MySpace in Music Stream Links
Mountain View,
Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) appears to have
shifted the bulk of its new music streaming links on search results to
MySpace-owned iLike, pushing Lala --...
Warner Music Brining Artist-focused Channels to Hulu
New York
- Major record label Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has signed a deal to feature its
artists' content on Hulu, the video portal joint venture...
Chinese Sites Ku6, Sohu Establish Anti-Piracy Fund
Beijing
- Chinese content sites Ku6.com and Sohu.com on Monday jointly announced the
creation of a new International Movie & TV Copyright Joint Procurement
Fund, into which...
MySpace Swaps Imeem Web Playlists for Advertisements
San Francisco
- News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace has replaced all of the songs and playlists embedded
around the Web using its recently acquired imeem streaming service...
Qtrax Cancels Dec. 24 Press Event; Promises January Launch
New York
- Qtrax, an ad-supported music download service in the works for years that has
been plagued with launch delays, canceled a press event on...
Imeem to Pay The Orchard $1.77M in Copyright Judgment
Los Angeles
- Streaming music service imeem, which recently sold certain assets to News
Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace, has been hit with a $1.77 million copyright infringement
judgment,...
