Subscribe Feed (RSS)Universal Music Reaches for Stick in CopyFight with MySpace [The Next Net]
November 18th, 2006 by adam | Filed under Law & Intellectual Property, Media & Marketing, Online (including Search).
Universal Music made good on its promise to sue MySpace, filing a lawsuit yesterday claiming copyright infringement by MySpace members. The two companies had been in negotiations to enter a licensing deal similar to the one Universal had struck earlier with YouTube, but Universal apparently also wanted to be paid for past infringements and the number MySpace put on the table wasnot high enough. That’s when Universal and reached for its legal stick.
Is this just another negotiating tactic, or is Universal willing to take this copyfight to the courts?
One person, Fox Interactive Media’s Ross Levinsohn (the News Corp. exec originally responsible for buying MySpace), isn’t sticking around to find out.
Original post by noemail@noemail.org (noemail@noemail.org (Erick Schonfeld)
