quote:Universal Music Group is suing MySpace - claiming the online social network site is encouraging its users to illegally share music and music videos.
It accuses MySpace of allowing people to illegally upload videos and of providing the technology for users to share the content with others.
Links to work by its artists including The Killers, Jay-Z and Gwen Stefani are available, Universal alleges.
But MySpace said it acted legally and dismissed the "meritless litigation".
It added that its procedures for removing illegal downloads were good, and that it fully complied with copyright laws.
*sigh* The copyright laws in this country need some serious rewrites, stat.
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quote:Universal Music Group is suing MySpace - claiming the online social network site is encouraging its users to illegally share music and music videos.
It accuses MySpace of allowing people to illegally upload videos and of providing the technology for users to share the content with others.
Links to work by its artists including The Killers, Jay-Z and Gwen Stefani are available, Universal alleges.
But MySpace said it acted legally and dismissed the "meritless litigation".
It added that its procedures for removing illegal downloads were good, and that it fully complied with copyright laws.
*sigh* The copyright laws in this country need some serious rewrites, stat.
Why? I mean, they benefit everyone involved; The recording companies, and...and...uhhh...hmmm...
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We just had a guest speaker in on copy-right laws for my Books and Readers class. Her conclusion is that things will be chaotic until publishers realise that the Internet isn't the end of the human race. Eventually it'll balance out and people will pay what is generally felt to be a reasonable fee for music and books and such downloaded off the Internet. Until then we will have law suits and whatnot between the opposing ideologies of locking user privaleges and not locking anything so it can all be given freely. On the fortunate end for me, it sounds like the laws in Canada are at least a bit more sane than south of the line...
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I just....I just....Universal. You are. So stupid. Beyond stupid. You make me want to bludgeon things. AND YOU ARE NOT HELPING ME WITH YOUR INSANITY.
quote:it sounds like the laws in Canada are at least a bit more sane than south of the line...
Laws that include adding on a levy to all blank media that could be used to record copyrighted music, regardless of how that media will actually be used, which will, in theory, be paid to the artists? Even when said blank media could and, in many cases, will be used by the purchaser of the blank media to backup their own data? That's sane?
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