Month: April 2008
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Anti-trust looms over major labels legal blitz
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Andrew Orlowski
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Serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson is embroiled in a legal fight against the recording business – and not for the first time. His MP3Tunes locker service has raised the ire of EMI in a case that continues this week. But isn’t it weird, he asks, how the Big Four divvy up the litigation against music start-ups…
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Right idea, wrong time: Snocap’s corpse washes up at Imeem
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Andrew Orlowski
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Timing is everything in business, and having a visionary idea too early can prove fatal. So it is with Shawn Fanning’s Snocap, which has formally announced today that it’s being acquired by Imeem. Or what’s left of it – most Snocap employees were laid off last year, with Fanning long gone. Snocap was created to…
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So is sharing a folder copyright infringement?
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Andrew Orlowski
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A US Judge on Monday upheld the view that sharing copyrighted music is infringement. It’s a defeat for defendant Denise Barker and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a victory for the four record labels in the case, led by Warner’s Elektra. The Copyright Act is fairly clear. It defines “publication” as “offering to distribute copies…