housegroover Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 BRITISH music group EMI is joining a legal battle launched by the music industry against German media giant Bertelsmann for allegedly funding file-sharing service Napster. EMI filed a copyright infringement suit earlier this week in a US District Court in New York, where an earlier class-action case was filed in February on behalf of 160,000 songwriters and publishers for $17 billion in damages. "With this suit EMI is fighting to protect our right to control and receive the benefits of our copyrights and the rights of our artists to share in and enjoy those benefits and be compensated for their valuable creative endeavours," an EMI spokesman said. "By investing both millions of dollars and management resources in Napster - which was an illegal enterprise built on the unlawful distribution of copyrighted works - Bertelsmann enabled and encouraged the wholesale theft of copyrighted music," he added. The music industry has been severely hit by internet-based piracy, with record companies alleging that Napster was at the vanguard of this. (Why diden't EMI do something while Napster where operateing? seems like there just as bad as some of the us states, only after the big bucks, EMI are not even a half good comapny over here, can't remember the last time they had an artist with a chart toping album!) Read More: http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0...Enbv%5E,00.html Source: Australian IT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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