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[FYI] Record Labels Sue MP3Board For Copyright Infringement
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- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:43:31 +0200
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Daily News
Record Labels Sue MP3Board For Copyright Infringement
By Dick Kelsey, Newsbytes
June 26, 2000
Major record labels today filed a copyright infringement lawsuit
against music search engine MP3board.com, seeking to shut down the
Web site for enabling Internet users to download recorded music for
free.
BMG Music, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Bros. Records and other
labels alleged in the suit that the MP3Board Web site's hypertext
links to thousands of big-label recordings give Internet users access
to download copyright-protected music.
The suit, filed in US District Court in Manhattan, comes three weeks
after MP3board.com sued the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA), asking that a California court stop the group from trying to
shut down its Web site. That suit was in response a May 25 letter
from the RIAA that MP3Board disable its Web site or remove links to
pirated songs.
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