Beat Box and South Korea do the lawyer waltz

[Kooperman]

Yahoo Korea faces copyright lawsuit

Date: 4/21/2004 4:03:00 PM

Source: AFP

SEOUL, April 21 (AFP) - A South Korean online music provider threatened Wednesday to take Yahoo Korea, an affiliate of the US Internet giant, to court for alleged copyright violations.

CultureTech Korea said the Internet portal allowed clients to illegally download copyrighted music files.

"Yahoo is legally responsible for using songs without a formal contract with us," CultureTech Korea president D.K. Lim told AFP.

Yahoo had made about 3,000 songs available for download, a CultureTech statement said.

The firm said it would sue Yahoo Korea and Doremi Media Co., a South Korean music label contracted to provide content for Yahoo's music service Beat Box.

Yahoo denied legal liability, saying Doremi was responsible for supplying the songs.

"This complaint misses the point because we have no legal responsibility under the contract with Doremi Media," Park Ji-young, a Yahoo Korea spokeswoman, told Yonhap news agency.

Beat Box, launched two weeks ago, offered music downloads to some 85,000 registered subscribers, the agency added.

http://www.yehey.com/entertainment/music/article.aspx?i=4561

[MoonMan]

lol @ the swapping service's name.

That's copyright infingment! I'm invoking DMCA.. I will see you in court mother fuckers.

[Shawn]

I tried to remember how long ago Wingnut suggested the name. It might have been longer than 2 weeks ago.

BTW moonie, do you think this looks tasteless? I've been trying to overwrite the forums pda's with it. (Those extremely pretty white ads.)

[DudeAsInCool]

I like everything but the graphic for Beatbox--the lettering looks too large and something tells me it should be two colors--say red and blue