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MooZar Aims To Turn Pirates Into Paying Customers
Over the years there have been quite a few starry-eyed companies who believe that they have the answer to online piracy, turning the millions who access unauthorized music online into a significant source of revenue for the recording industry. The latest outfit set to attempt online musical alchemy are known as MooZar . The company was recently touting its wares at MIDEM and has been running very large, very expensive ads recently, both online and in print.
Continue reading »IFPI Loses “Deep-Linking” Case Against Baidu
Search engine Baidu.com is not only China’s biggest, but also a major player globally. It recently grabbed headlines when it was hacked by the ‘Iranian cyber army’, the same outfit that took Twitter offline in December. Baidu has become increasingly popular with the Chinese population for its MP3 indexing abilities.
Continue reading »Record Labels Face $6 Billion Damages for Pirating Artists
It is no secret that the major record labels have a double standard when it comes to copyright. On the one hand they try to put operators of BitTorrent sites in jail and ruin the lives of single mothers and students by demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and on the other they sell CDs containing music for which they haven’t obtained copyright permission. In the past we’ve covered many disputes between artists and labels, where the latter is being accused or even sued for using songs without permission.
Continue reading »Vevo strikes on December 8
We’d file this under the Who gives a flying sexual intercourse? heading. But USA Today says it’s “long awaited”, as in, “Rio Caraeff (right) isn’t just preparing to introduce a new company on Dec.
Continue reading »Guns N’ Roses Sued for Copyright Infringement
Accused of unauthorized usage of two songs by German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss. I get no greater pleasure than when I read of either record labels or mega rock star bands getting accused for copyright infringement, especially since they profit from the theft unlike the file-sharers they routinely target. According to the lawsuit , the band illegally used parts of two songs by German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss, “Wherever You Are” and “A Strangely Isolated Place,” in the song “Riad N’ the Bedouins” for its recent album.
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