Universal Music Sues MySpace For Users Posts of Copyrighted Music

[DudeAsInCool]

Universal Music, the world's largest music company, is suing Rupert Murdoch's social networking site MySpace, alleging its users are infringing copyright by posting pop songs and music videos on their web pages.

The suit, filed last night in a California court, demands that MySpace pay Universal up to $150,000 for every one of its copyrighted works used by the website's army of 125 million users. The compensation demand runs into tens of millions of dollars.

MySpace, owned by Mr Murdoch's News Corporation, dismissed the lawsuit as "meritless".

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[slum_goddess]

let 'em try...there are MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of MySpaz users; i wanna see them try to weed out copyrighted *puke* music from people's originals...and i'd love to see the final invoices and the time it took the accountants or whatever to do so.

fuckin' morons. for once, i agree w/murdoch.

[Hemoglobin Harry]

It could turn out to be an extretmely useful court battle if it comes to that. If Fox could successful defend on a lawsuit it would draw a road map to a new version of acceptable use.

These are all mega-rich people though so at the end of the day they'll just send money back and forth, strike a new deal and avoid making any precedent.

Fox studios has too much to lose to really try.

Edited November 18, 2006 by Hemoglobin Harry

[method77]

there will be an announcement the next few days that Universal made a deal with MySpace to host videos